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https://www.apexspeed.com/forums/att...d=108933&stc=1When cleaning and rebuilding one of my carbs for my Lotus, one of the accellerator check balls fell into the wrong hole. I cannot get it out. Compressed air, vaccum, upside down, hitting it with hammer and cursing it have not budged it.
I'm sure that I'm not the first. Any ideas???
As it has jammed under its own weight falling in it wouldn’t take much expansion of the carby body for it to free up. With no traces of fuel around I would heat the body with it upside down using an electric heat gun. Mine is a Bosch digital unit adjustable up to 660c
QUOTE=Hawke;658168]https://www.apexspeed.com/forums/att...d=108933&stc=1When cleaning and rebuilding one of my carbs for my Lotus, one of the accellerator check balls fell into the wrong hole. I cannot get it out. Compressed air, vaccum, upside down, hitting it with hammer and cursing it have not budged it.
I'm sure that I'm not the first. Any ideas???[/QUOTE]
Put a brass or hardwood block over as broad a surface as you can achieve and hit it with a hammer while holding upside down.
The ball will droop out well before you damage any gasket surfaces.
Brian
Thanks for those hints. Any idea of what that hole does, and how to get to it from the other side?
That port is a vent for the cold start circuit. Most blank them off when doing the cold start delete mod due fuel spilling out of the carbs during 1+ G cornering. Think wings and slicks.
QUOTE=Hawke;658184]Thanks for those hints. Any idea of what that hole does, and how to get to it from the other side?[/QUOTE]
Got it. Had to drill through the side of the carb, and use a punch from underneath. Picture to follow.
The cold start valves had all been blanked off.
A bit of JB Weld on the hole, and no one will know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hawke
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That is one hungry looking Carb !
I was wondering what happened to the pump spill/exhaust valves. Look to be twisted off. To the right of the ball under the 24 in the last picture.
The cold start valves have been disabled sometime last century.Quote:
Originally Posted by J Leonard
Ok, that made me laugh.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hawke
Ironically I dealt with the same issue with one of my DCOE 45's a few weeks ago when I was rebuidling them. I decided to leave it there as I was disabling the cold start and pluging that hole anyways.
Not knowing what kind of witchcraft happens at the bottom of that hole, i hope my decision to leave it was OK...
Best of luck.