I'm still here. I haven't really done much since my last post about those damn carbs. I'm working at a new place now, 8hr days but I travel an hour to get there and home each day, so it doesn't leave me much time or energy to get anything done after work.
Ialso spend 1 day each weekend up at my Mum's place, cutting stove and heater wood, fixing stuff, clearing bracken over and over again, and lately, hunting down European Wasp nests and destroying them. It's been a bad year for them.
I did get an ultrasonic parts cleaner and it does an amazing job. I'll see if I can get a bit of an update out, probably Wednesday night.
I have one carb cleaned and partly rebuilt but found that the accelerator pump plungers in the kit are about 10mm shorter than the original. It may not matter, as the inlet and outlet ports are at the base,
but I'd like to have it the same as the original so that if it doesn't work when I refit it all, I won't be wondering if its because of that plunger.
I pulled out the kit that John.K sent me ages ago and the plunger in that kit is exactly the same as the original. The gaskets are different, but I have 2 sets of those. The kits came with new float needles, which is good as I lost one when unbolting the carbs. How a brass needle can disappear on a flat black sheet of plastic has me beat, but that's what happened.
Anyway, I'll throw a post together shortly and get some before and after pics up.
Greg.
