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healeyboz

healeyboz

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Just got these from Hap today!! Getting ready to put them on and hopefully fire the motor for the first time.

Of course.... question. The left carb has an inlet for fuel from the right carb. The right carb has three inlets for fuel (pictured). What goes where? I took a pic so that each inlet can be called left, center, right. Which one does the line from the tank go? Which one should go to the other carb? And what in the world is the third one for?
 

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The one on the right, nearest the fiewall, should be the one where the fuel comes into (the front). It has another pipe for the fuel to the other carb, and an overflow for the float bowl.
The lids look like different models.
 
The one with the three inlets is the front carb. The one with the single inlet is the rear carb. There is one line that goes from the front carb to the rear carb. Another of the inlets on the front carb is the fuel input from the pump. The third is accually an outlet to the fuel vapor charcoal cannister. The inlet that the fuel feed goes to is the one that is one the right of the lower picture. The outlet in the middle of that picture is the one that goes to the charcoal canister OR PEANUT BUTTER JAR. Then the last outlet that is on the left of that picture is the one that has the crossover hose to the rear carb.

Hope this helps
 
Download the first pic up top. I will take another pic of the carbs on the motor tomorrow!! It RUNS!!! First time in 35 years!!
 
Barry, you may need to switch the float lid for fornt to rear depending on how you hook up the fuel supply line, for life of me I didn't have any comlete assmebly to look at and we do something entirely different on the race cars. Good catch on different modlel Boz, Barry just had a box full of carbs, no complete assembly, and had no three pipe float lids, so I rummaged through my spares to find that one. Folks this set up is truely built from scratch/spare parts, but they are good early carbs, have the metal tab floats, all good Curto parts. Barry, me and Joe Curto made a good educated guess at needles for your uprated motor and went with a #3 needle which is pretty close to stock until you get to the upper stages. Yeah I ment to get a picture of them to before they went out, but in the rush to beat the UPS man they just got packed up to go to Barry. Did you get your new return springs on there, those on there look like crap, but i knew you had the new ones, and fiquired those would atlest give you clue to how they went.
 
I did Hap! And thanks again. They work better than they look.
The three springs that I bought from VB just weren't strong enough. I had to use a different return spring for the throttle cable. After all of the lubricating and such, the pedal would just not return to where it was supposed to be. I believe the issue to be with the "pedal linkage". Other issues to work out now that she is running. I have to take the generator back to the guys that rebuilt her. Spiking all over the place and it now has a nasty whine to her!! I was able to get the timing pretty close and the valves set hot before that happened. I'll get the generator fixed and get back to it. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
Good deal, sounds like progress to me.
 
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