Engine stall help
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Birdsboro PA
It does not. I took it out last week and checked. It is also a new float that was put in last summer. The weird thing is that it will over flow, but then if I can keep it running and then check the float level, it is perfect.
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Birdsboro PA
I do not have the wire. Does a holley need one though?
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I don't remember, but it seems that of all the carbs I've rebuilt had one, and one usually came in the kits. It allows the float to pull the needle away from the seat. I think it would be easy enough to make one.
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Birdsboro PA
I did change the needle and seat today, so we will see if the issue continues or not.
Fleet Mechanic
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I think that's a good move. I had the same kind of thing happen one time, I think a very small piece of trash was keeping my secondary needle from closing. All of the sudden the truck wouldn't idle, it would die unless I kept giving it gas. I have glass site plugs in my carb, and in the lack of light in a dim parking lot, it looked like there wasn't fuel in the secondary bowl. Didn't really think lack of fuel in the secondary bowl in a vacuum secondary carb would cause an engine to die at idle, (depending on how the carb is adjusted with vacuum secondary it should be pulling mostly from the primaries at idle) but it did not look normal. Got it home and saw with a good light, the fuel level was way over the top of the site plug thus flooding out the engine at idle. Thinking that was the only thing that could cause that. I replaced the secondary needle and seat and it was fixed!
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Birdsboro PA
So far the issue has not returned since I replaced the needle and seat. Hopefully it stays away. I am going ti start using some ethanol additive as well to hopefully prevent any further corrosion in the carb
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That's good, Nick. But it hasn't been to warm here in PA, either.
Fleet Mechanic
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I wouldn't be to concerned about putting additive in your fuel unless your not going to run it for awhile, some higher grade fuels have lower levels of ethanol , and in some states none at all. I use 93 octane (not sure of the ethanol #) and no problems with the fuel system to date. How old is the carb? Rebuilt? Did you ever try out that other carb?
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Fleet Mechanic
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Well it looks like Im not out of the woods yet. Today was the first warm day in a while, and the issue came back. Next thing I am going to do is swap carbs like I was saying. If I still have the issue after that, I think I might try a new fuel pump. Any body else have more ideas?