Zenith Stromberg Help

"Dougal" <DougalAThiskennel.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
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> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestions guys, i'll have an investigate and see what
>> i can find. If it is a Fuel bowl vent, should it be left open and not
>> connected to anything?
>>
>> The main reason i ask is that on the Left hand carb (not the leaky
>> one), the same hole is connected to the crank case breather. But the
>> breather on the Right side (leaky one) is connected lower down (the
>> black pipe in the pic).
>
> I wonder if your installation is not original.
>
> Putting a float chamber vent into the crankcase doesn't seem very
> sensible - your situation is a prime example: neat fuel into the sump!
>
> The old Range Rover installation put them back into the air cleaner, I
> think. I have an old engine which may be sufficiently complete for me to
> work it out. I'll have a look over the next few days to see.
>
> In the meantime, just leave it open to atmosphere.

Sound like a rootes application ( Hillman?) some had a breather pipe back to
the air filter
Derek

Unfortunately work has meant that i've had to sideline the landy for a
few days, but when i get back to it i'll let you know how i get on.

Thanks to everyone for all the advice.

You were quite right, it was a sticky float needle. I dropped the
float chamber as suggest, which was just possible without remooving the
carb, and nothing seemed out of place. So i just pushed the float up
and down a couple of times to check it was free. When i re-assembled
the carb, it seemed to work fine. So i dont know what caused it to
stick, but at least i know what to do next time!

Thanks again.

wrote:

|| So i dont know what
|| caused it to stick, but at least i know what to do next time!

Crud, which you disturbed. Repeat every 100,000 miles. :-)

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