Weber DCOE Experts - Help

[Hawke]

When 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???

[Raleigh]

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]When 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]

[Hardingfv32]

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

[Hawke]

Thanks for those hints. Any idea of what that hole does, and how to get to it from the other side?

[Raleigh]

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]

[Hawke]

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.

[Hawke]

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.

[stonebridge20]

That is one hungry looking Carb !

[J Leonard]

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.

[Hawke]

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.

[Rick Iverson]

Ok, that made me laugh.

The cold start valves have been disabled sometime last century.

[Alex Zeller]

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.