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went for a drive in the mg today to enjoy the mountains...came out of a turn driving the car kinda hard...smell waffles on the straight so decided to bring the car home immedieatley...pop the hood and noticed that coolant is leaking from what looks like the bottom of the carb onto the header(weber DGV 32/36 which was just put on over christmas)did i blow the head gasket? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif
 
very possible... is your weber a water choke type?
 
No it is a Manuel Choke...going to take the head off this weekend because i don't think its warped...just an old gasket that finally went...probably put a new gasket on and hope that that will last me till the summer/fall when I have the time to hopefully do an Engine rebuild or an engine swap still debating on which one i wanna do
 
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A fellow club member wants to trade his 32/36 for my HS4s. He doesn't know if it's manual, water, automatic whatever choke, how can I tell?
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Manual choke will have a cable going to it.
Automatic choke will have a hose going to the choke setup.

- Doug
 
AngliaGT said:
Manual choke will have a cable going to it.
Automatic choke will have a hose going to the choke setup.

- Doug
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Or wires going into the carb (electric choke)
 
Baz said:
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A fellow club member wants to trade his 32/36 for my HS4s. He doesn't know if it's manual, water, automatic whatever choke, how can I tell?
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Sorry! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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KEEP the SU's Barry!!!

Go buy a Weber & manifold off'n E-bay. Only thing it has as an advantage is an accelerator pump. Makes ya ~think~ it adds HP. If you just can't live without a Weber, get a REAL one: 40 DCOE.
 
some weber setups use water to warm the intake manifold, do you have a couple of hoses down below your carb?
 
ccougill said:
some weber setups use water to warm the intake manifold, do you have a couple of hoses down below your carb?
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yes the coolant lines run into the bottom of the carb...coolant was all over the head and kinda looked like it was comming out of the bottom of the carb but the bottom of the carb sits bellow the head gasket so i figue it was just the coolant squirting out from the head onto the intake manifold/carb and the exhaust header...the carb looks fine
 
A recommendation, before you tear it apart, when it is possible it may not be the part you're tearing apart. Beg, borrow or steal(or take it to a shop with) a radiator/coolant system pressure tester. Warm up the car, shut it off, remove the cap, install the pressure pump/gauge on the radiator(with a full coolant system) and pump it up. This usually gives you a very good illustration of pinpointing the leak. May NOT be a head gasket.
 
did you check your coolant for oil, or your oil for coolant? should look kind of white and milky. also did you have white smoke coming out of your tailpipe? all signs of a blown headgasket.
 
fixed it today...turns out that one of the coolant tubes that runs out from the back of the head (firewall side)had a plug on the end of it with a hole the size of a pin that only leaked when you reved the car up and shot coolant onto the header...went to the auto parts store and got a new plug and problem solved.
 
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