Re: SER1. Running like a blocked drain.

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Mark,
I just access this from outside the carb? no need to open the whole thing up?


At 12:34 09/09/2005, you wrote:
>Tom, the idle jet is the large brass screw facing the valve cover. 
>When you remove it be careful not to lose the o-ring. The jet just 
>pushes into the end of the screw. Remove it and blow it out. 
>Reinstall and give it a test. Cheers, Mark
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Wykes" <tw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 5:36 AM
>Subject: SER1. Running like a blocked drain.
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>>Dear old Henrietta has been running like a dream but in the last two
>>days she won't hold idle and just dies and crawling along in traffic
>>at low revs is like going to work on a Kangaroo.
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>>OK so she had a 2.25 engine with a Weber carb. i fiddled with the
>>timing but that made no difference anything above (I guess) 2000 RPM
>>she runs fine and there is no power loss. My questions is....
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>>Does the Weber carb have an Idle Jet and would my symptoms point to
>>that being blocked?
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>>Can anyone else think of any other thing I should be looking at?
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>>Regards.
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>>Tom Wykes.
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>>PCB Designer
>>Cambridge Broadband.
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>>If you don't live life on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
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Regards.

Tom Wykes.



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