Can't keep it running WHY? Ideas Please - Page 3

Mike Romain · 03-21-2009, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Ford_Prefect

No, I mean they will tear when I try to take the thing out. Then I will end up with bits of it all down in my carb. That is just the way my luck tends to go when it comes to fixing things.

Those gaskets, there are two of them in the cluster seem to be pretty tough and they aren't under a lot of torque so I hope you have good luck today.

I am of wheeling...

got a 350 km rural road with spring mud run planned.

Ford_Prefect · 03-21-2009, 08:38 AM

Wow, interesting.

I do not go in with mud much. Planning on climbing some boulders today! Love rock crawling in my CJ, lots of fun.

Ford_Prefect · 03-28-2009, 01:55 PM

Ok, guys...

Here I sit...

I have gotten the thing out today, but the tubes that you told me to clean are attached still to the flat top piece. My quesions is this...

DO I need to remove those tubes from the remainder of the asembly, or no? The reason I ask is because I can not figure out HOW to remove them.

I Stuck a twist tie (worked GREAT by the way) down there, and also in the weasp holes, but obviously seeing as it is a straight 90 degree angle, I can not make the turn to be certain I am not just pushing stuff to the end.

Any thoughts here please???

Thanks

Brian

Ford_Prefect · 03-28-2009, 01:57 PM

ALSO

SHould I expect to actually SEE anything that might have been clogging it up?

So far it seems like I did this for nothing, but I guess I shall not judge until I have it all back together and can see if it runs!

Thanks a lot!

**mcmud** · 03-28-2009, 02:07 PM

I don't think removal would be necessary. Use plenty of cleaner at both ends and then use shop air or simply use the red tip to blow it out and away.

Without enlarging the hole you should rather expect to keep it up now and again. Its much simpler the second time.

Ford_Prefect · 03-28-2009, 02:10 PM

Yeah, it actually was pretty easy for me to do this time, so that is nice. I would get the larger tube sizes, but I really can not afford the forty bucks to do it, so, such is life...

I guess I do not have any cleaner, so, sadly I have to run off for carb cleaner...

Thanks for the response
Brian

**mcmud** · 03-28-2009, 02:18 PM

Yea man I would do that and while your out see if you can p/u a torch tip cleaner.

Ford_Prefect · 03-28-2009, 02:28 PM

That would have been a good idea, oh well I think what I got should have done fairly well by me. I crushed it up a bit and ran it down in there, so, I HOPE it worked ok... Did not get your message until I got back...

Wish me luck, I am off to re-install it all

Ford_Prefect · 03-28-2009, 03:16 PM

You know!!

It would not be freaking working on a Carb if you did not have to learn SOMETHING the HARD way! ggrrr

The thing is all back together, and one of those tiny little "bolts" holding the flap on broke off in there!

Stupid head fell into the carb!

ggrrrr!

SO, I magnetized a screwdriver, and I got luck that it did not fall all that far down in there, so, I fished it out. BUT that still left with with a part of that screw sticking out the other side of the bar the flap bolts to. ERGO I had to pull the broken chunk out, yes guessed it, over the top of the open carb!

Could not get the bar out because the bolt stuck out the other side, and prevented me from pulling the thing. So I jammed a rag down in there to keep IT from going down into the carb as well, and managed to unscrew the thing using a small set of vice grips.

Let me just say that SUCKED!

MAN that was a bummer!

I guess I will be off to the parts store AGAIN all for one tiny little "bolt"

thanks again for the help all... I will let you know once I get it on there, again, and then I can start it up and see if it'll run.

You know somedays I wish I were a drinking man, so I could just give the carb the bird and have a beer. sigh..

Ford_Prefect · 03-28-2009, 06:24 PM

So I went to every parts store in town and I can not find the part I need!

Freaking figures!

SO now I have to go and try to buy one someplace, perhaps online, or I may even have to buy a new carb for a stinking BOLT!!!!

Ford_Prefect · 03-28-2009, 06:27 PM

Has anyone got an extra BBD that they might want to mail the screws out of the choke plate to me?

Mike Romain · 03-30-2009, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Ford_Prefect

Has anyone got an extra BBD that they might want to mail the screws out of the choke plate to me?

Maybe these folks have it?

http://www.carburetion.com/Carter2.htm

Ford_Prefect · 04-02-2009, 01:40 PM

Ok, well, I found a fastenall not too far away, and they hooked me up with what we believe to be the right screws to replace the broken sucker.

My question is... Should I use some lock-tight thread locker to keep the screws in place? The reason I ask is because when I took in the existing screw they could not get it to fit into a nut that matched the screws that I got. Ergo, it seems at s though the original screws may have been a slight bit larger than the ones I picked up. (A Number Four I believe they were)

Now, when I install them they seem to tighten up just fine... Should I be worried? I just do not want these things vibrating out, and down into the carb one fine day...

Thanks for the thoughts all,
Brian

**mcmud** · 04-02-2009, 03:00 PM

Those bolts broke cause the were staked onto the rod. A fallen screw at rest as you know most likely can be retrieved however at run they are most likely gone on down inside somewhere.

Who knows how tight these are set and how well you do at allowing the lock tight to cure before starting the engine. A smaller bolt size would IMO always be a worry. Can you deform the bolt without bending anything but the threads in addition to the Red locking goo?

Ford_Prefect · 04-02-2009, 03:45 PM

OK MUD, Umm... Not sure if that means I SHOULD use it or NOT?

SO i think I am going to go ahead and stick it in there

BY THE WAY, THBANKS EVERYONE! I started the jeep up just now, and it idles like a dream. Thanks SO much, I was getting so frustrated with that.