tcreeley
Elite Member
Just a couple of ideas. I rebuilt a '48 Farmal cub carb one time. Cleaned it well and reassembled it a couple of times and it wouldn't run right. I went through it carefully and discovered that where I bolted it on to the intake, just under the gasket - the carb was warped and no matter what, wouldn't give me a good seal. I solved that with a gooey gray gasket maker that I put on both sides of the gasket and mated the surfaces and bolted it on. I let it harden up a day before I started the tractor. Solved the problem and held up for years.
Another time my one cylinder Suzuki LS650 motocycle was flooding everytime I took it out - streaming gas out the overflow outlet. The car was in good shape, the float, etc. . I figured out that the gas tank had rust in it and a piece made it through the in-tank filter and prevented the float from closing all of the way. My solution was to add another fuel filter - JC Whitney transparent glass filter between the tank and the carb. That solved that one. When the glass filter got dirty - I unscrewed and drained it, cleaned it, reassembled it and was good to go. - I never thought rust could do that, but it did.
Goodluck.
Another time my one cylinder Suzuki LS650 motocycle was flooding everytime I took it out - streaming gas out the overflow outlet. The car was in good shape, the float, etc. . I figured out that the gas tank had rust in it and a piece made it through the in-tank filter and prevented the float from closing all of the way. My solution was to add another fuel filter - JC Whitney transparent glass filter between the tank and the carb. That solved that one. When the glass filter got dirty - I unscrewed and drained it, cleaned it, reassembled it and was good to go. - I never thought rust could do that, but it did.
Goodluck.