MercuryMac
Builder Junky!
Compounding bad luck struck me the other day.
My new motor runs too rich sometimes, so I snuck the middle [primary] carb out of its spot, [pic one] and took it apart to figure out what went wrong and fix it. I blew it all out and checked the power valve, [it seemed OK], and put the carb back on. [Quite a job] It still weeped gas around the base, so I finagled it back out of there and took it into the shop. I was blowing up a front tire on the tractor right beside the truck so I could take the tractor away and remove the snow blade and put on the bucket again. While I was setting the carb on the bench I heard a 'poof'. That had to be a tire blowing up. Sure enough, a hole had blown in the face of the tire right at the ground. There's a hole in the packed gravelly ground a little bigger than a five gallon pail, and quite a bit of that dirt went onto my much loved truck. Very seldom would anyone have an open intake manifold five feet from a dirt explosion, [pic two]. Anyhow, I changed out the power valve and set the float level down a bit and that seemed to work.
My new motor runs too rich sometimes, so I snuck the middle [primary] carb out of its spot, [pic one] and took it apart to figure out what went wrong and fix it. I blew it all out and checked the power valve, [it seemed OK], and put the carb back on. [Quite a job] It still weeped gas around the base, so I finagled it back out of there and took it into the shop. I was blowing up a front tire on the tractor right beside the truck so I could take the tractor away and remove the snow blade and put on the bucket again. While I was setting the carb on the bench I heard a 'poof'. That had to be a tire blowing up. Sure enough, a hole had blown in the face of the tire right at the ground. There's a hole in the packed gravelly ground a little bigger than a five gallon pail, and quite a bit of that dirt went onto my much loved truck. Very seldom would anyone have an open intake manifold five feet from a dirt explosion, [pic two]. Anyhow, I changed out the power valve and set the float level down a bit and that seemed to work.