[tcb] Re: ANYONE HAVE A SPARE PICT 34 CARB TO test with?
- From: Mark Sawyer <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:38:32 -0800 (PST)
There's suppose to be a gasket under the carb? Hmmmm.
Dan Martin <danandkatrinamartin@xxxxxxx> wrote: I had it bolted down so tight
that the gasket was plugging the by
pass on the bottom flange.
Colin flipped the gasket over and torqued the carb down to spec and
all is well.
On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Eric Woodall wrote:
> You might ask Dan Martin about the idle issue.
> He has having problems also, and at Transporters At the Point he
> had Colin
> fix his. Had something going on on the right side of the carb?
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>> The last good carb we had went on Mark J.'s bus. we were having
>> the same
>> problem with not wanting to idle. had nothing to do with the
>> dizzy. it was
>> all carb problems. I have a rebuild kit in the garage for a PICT
>> 34 if you
>> want to clean and rebuild it.
>>
>> Trey Jung wrote: Ok, bus has been running ok
>> these
>> last few weeks but yesterday driving home the bus stopped wanting
>> to idle.
>>
>> Symptoms: Coming up to a red light or stop sign as I am braking
>> the oil
>> light flicks in and off , oil pressure is dropping down to 0 in
>> relationship to the the tach dropping to zero (bus dies) have to
>> keep
>> foot on gas pedal to try and keep the idle at 1100 or 1200.... not
>> good.
>>
>> I pulled the Pict 34 and blew out the jets and gas.. remounted it.
>> Fuel
>> filter looks good, replaced it 2 months ago when i had the same
>> problem.....
>>
>> the common denominator here is like 2 months ago the dizzy was
>> loose (the
>> clamp came loose back then and I thought hey its just the dizzy
>> moved) I
>> bought a new "made in china" clamp from Kermit and it came loose too
>> yesterday , tighten it down and the bolt snapped, might have to
>> buy one of
>> those nice aluminum blue ones for $30 clams...
>>
>> Anyone I reset the dizzy in the engine last night and it still
>> wont idle
>> (no clamp to hold it down) but the dizzy doesn't pop out like
>> you'd think
>> it would (the chatter spring is in there)
>>
>> so if anyone in Houston has a pict 34 i can borrow and throw on
>> the engine
>> to test this weekend that would be great...
>>
>> Trey
>>
>> 713-501-7963
>>
>>
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