Post by tommydp on Oct 12, 2011 21:06:25 GMT
Hi all!
Been working on a 2200 Princess this evening. It belongs to an older gentleman, who has owned it since it was 2 years old. As mentioned in an earlier post the car has been misfiring and stalling while driving, and last time I suspected fuel starvation at one of the carbs, the one to the right when wieving the engine from front, as the three corresponding cylinders were not firing though they had a spark.
Well, we removed the carbs, they had never been opened according to him.. You would not believe the contents of those float chambers.. No doubt the float valve could have been sticking etc. It's a wonder the car has run at all:-)
So I removed the floats and float needles and cleaned everything up, blowing compressed air through etc. The circular float sealing rings seemed fine, so put them back in. I marked the position of the float lids and did not mix any parts between the two carbs.
The car ran beautifully, but I soon discovered petrol leaking from both carbs, one worse than the other. This comes from between the float lid an carb body, so I suppose the sealing rings are not doing their job.
Any ideas or experiences with this? What can be done to get this tight? I will order new seals tomorrow anyway, as I can't see anything else causing this.
Regards, Tommy:-)
Been working on a 2200 Princess this evening. It belongs to an older gentleman, who has owned it since it was 2 years old. As mentioned in an earlier post the car has been misfiring and stalling while driving, and last time I suspected fuel starvation at one of the carbs, the one to the right when wieving the engine from front, as the three corresponding cylinders were not firing though they had a spark.
Well, we removed the carbs, they had never been opened according to him.. You would not believe the contents of those float chambers.. No doubt the float valve could have been sticking etc. It's a wonder the car has run at all:-)
So I removed the floats and float needles and cleaned everything up, blowing compressed air through etc. The circular float sealing rings seemed fine, so put them back in. I marked the position of the float lids and did not mix any parts between the two carbs.
The car ran beautifully, but I soon discovered petrol leaking from both carbs, one worse than the other. This comes from between the float lid an carb body, so I suppose the sealing rings are not doing their job.
Any ideas or experiences with this? What can be done to get this tight? I will order new seals tomorrow anyway, as I can't see anything else causing this.
Regards, Tommy:-)
