<VV> Drum roll please.... and the answer to the 66 140 Corsa that wants to run with the choke on.....

[Joe West]

And the prize goes to Chuck who was the first to pick the correct answer:

Chuck <chsadek at aldephia.net> wrote:

" It is interesting to me that you don't appear
to be getting fuel to the main circuit which is the down leg venturi
circuit"

He sent this response roughly 4 hours after I posted the problem
Thanks everyone for the great responses... since this was a new car to our
family, I needed to check EVERYTHING that everyone pointed out anyway... so
all of your suggestions were useful!

Thanks again everyone... I'll post the picture of the melted venturi cluster
here in a few minutes.

Joe




On 5/4/05 5:24 PM, "Joe West" <joew at diveaz.com> wrote:

> Found the problem.
> 
> After troubleshooting the problem down to the fact that the left primary
> carb was the one that wanted to run with the choke on... I pulled the carb.
> 
> I looked down inside the carb throat and you'll NEVER guess what I found.
> 
> The entire venturi cluster was MELTED down to a nub.  There was nothing but
> a 1/8" nub of melted potmetal where the cluster was SUPPOSED to be.
> 
> Amazing...  utterly amazing.
> 
> I'll shoot a picture and put it on virtualcorvairclub.com shortly
> 
> Joe West
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