<VV> [fastvair] Carburetor mystery--Update

[Hugo Miller]

Well, that certainly seems to narrow it down. But bizarre co-incidences 
do happen sometimes - dislodging a wire somewhere whil swapping carbs 
over & that sort of thing.
If I were a betting man I'd be looking at fuel levels in the float bowl 
though.

On 2020-03-21 16:03, jryall at juno.com wrote:
> From the original post:
>
> "Using the1 76 in.³ engine, I first installed four stock carburetors.
> The engine started and ran perfectly responding correctly the 
> throttle
> position.  I then installed the modified carburetors and got the same
> results as last year.  Hard starting and only running for a few 
> seconds
> before dying as if out ofa gas."
>
> Both engines ran well on stock carbs.  When using the bored out 
> carbs,
> neither engine ran well.
>
> John Ryall
>
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 15:27:46 +0000 Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs
> <virtualvairs at corvair.org> writes:
>> I have lost the original post, but did he not say that the engine
>> would
>> not run at all? I'm no expert on these carburettors, but I'd be
>> struggling to think of a fault that would stop the engine running on
>> at
>> least some of the jets. Unless it is the float valve of course.
>> I did once come across a car with similar symptoms - it turned out
>> the
>> be the float valve had unscrewed enough that the fuel level was so
>> low
>> that the car wouldn't run.
>> I know it sounds perverse, given the logical train of events we are
>>
>> presented with, but as they say, the first thing you should check on
>> the
>> carburettor is the ignition.
>>