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I recently acquired a BJ8 from the Widow of the second owner. It hadn't been driven in years but her husband had been trying to get it back on the road. He had done the brakes and got it running. When I first looked at it, it started and ran "OK". When I went to pick it up, it acted like it was trying to run on one carb and we had to winch it on the trailer. Today I had a lull in my 120 project so I pulled the float bowl covers on the BJ8 expecting to find a stuck float valve. This is what I found:
 

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I think you're onto something there, lol!

I don't know about you, but when I come across stuff like that, I find it highly entertaining ;)
 
I hear someone lauching from cloud 9 ;-)

Hans
 
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