Not may car but our youths. He's complaining of the cockpit stinking of fuel and the car is hesistant /jerky at higher rpm's? I havent had a look yet (got enough on of me own). Need a list of quick checks to save me fekin about. Carb was rebuilt 3 months ago and has run fine everyday since. Any ideas chaps??
(oh hes been messing about with accelarator cable and the mixture scew im told)
Has he got an in car boost controller? Venting off into car?
Originally Posted by Bigfoot
i have an in car boost controller and when i turn it up i get the smell of petrol, very strong aswell.
mines not venting into the car!
Fuel leak? split hose, Check hoses around fuel pressure regulator
where is this located?
No in car bleed valve fitted.
You get the smell of fuel from the boost controller because most people fit the vacum pipe from the base of the carb to the in-car boost then to the actuator. At the base of the carb you have the air/fuel mixture which is then going through the pipework, try putting the vacum pipe from the base of the carb to above the carb i:e carb top and that should get rid of the smell.
matt sorry for the hijack of your post
i have mine from the in car controller to a t-piece which is the bleed valve then from there one goes to actuctor the other to carb as in this picture, am i doing something wrong??
my arrow shows where on the carb im connected too!
Thats what i mean mate, that is below the level where the fuel enter's so fuel vapour will do through the pipe.matt sorry for the hijack of your post
i have mine from the in car controller to a t-piece which is the bleed valve then from there one goes to actuctor the other to carb as in this picture, am i doing something wrong??
so how shall i plumb it in, when you say carb top what do you mean?
It depends on what actuator you have mate, if you have a single port one i would just run a pipe from the actuator to the outlet on the carb top (one closest to the rad). If you have a bleed valve or boost controller connect it in the middle of the pipe, as for the carb base outlet i just block it off.
glad your sorted frix!
Now back to my problem...................................
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote