<VV> Carb mystery

[David S Malcolm]

Hugo

It is British, here we would say Rube Goldberg (author of a famous 
series of comic strips, Goggle them).

David



On 3/21/20 11:12 PM, FrankDuVal via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Bending linkages on carburetors is normal for many brands. Choke 
> links, accelerator links, etc.
>
> I have no idea why you think the idle vent valve is egregious. It just 
> vents the float bowl to atmosphere (not through the air cleaner) at 
> idle to eliminate the hot percolation problem.  Real simple solution 
> to a problem. The Rochester HV is NOT the only carburetor to have an 
> idle vent valve function. And BTW, you bend the tang to adjust.
>
> Remember, our cars need to survive (let me recalculate for you ) -20° 
> C to 50° C and from less than sea level (-100 feet, [-200 in Death 
> Valley]) to 10,000+ (Pike's Peak is 14,000!) feet in operation off the 
> showroom floor for hundreds of miles at a time.
>
> Frank DuVal
>
> On 3/21/2020 5:22 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
>>
>> And the method of adjusting the accelerator pump, if I recall, is to 
>> bend the operating rod.
>
>> The most egregious thing I found was a hole somewhere near the base 
>> of the carb that was covered by a rubber bung which was attached to 
>> some sort of lever. I have no idea what its function was, but it 
>> struck me as a proper Heath-Robinson arrangement which was just 
>> asking to give trouble (Heath-Robinson may be a British in-joke, I'm 
>> not sure).
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