Sammy, The Solex carb has H30-31PICT printed on it and it's a 1969 bus... any hitnts? On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:26 PM, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > We have lots of good VW mechanics on this list but they are mostly not mind > readers. Tell us what year model bus, what engine, what carb.etc. > > --- On *Mon, 9/26/11, Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote: > > > From: Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [tcb] t@p pain and jeapordy > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 5:51 PM > > > The other Paul Smith and I have worked to get the bus back to road worthy > shape in time for T@P <http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=T@P>, > but we are getting down to the wie. Here's our problem. We have a fuel/air > mix problem that we can't seem to kick. Symptoms are a bus that does not > idle correctly and Paul has to 3-foot it at all stops. That's one on the > clutch, one on the brake, and one on the gas to keep us from stalling. The > first and easiest answer is to adjust the idle. The screw does nothing and > based on our Muir book, we cleaned the carb. Now will hold a fairly steady > idle , but it's too low. When you engage the transmission it dies. Or when > you rev the throttle, on the way back down to idle it goes too low and > dies. So far we have: cleaned carb with carb cleaner, cleaned air filter, > replaced fuel pump and rod, replace valve cover gasket (unrelated), replaced > spark plugs, checked timing, run compression test... all is good. The only > thing we havent replaced is points, but I surely would have thought fouled > points would show up in the compression test. > > Any words of wisdom, we're caught between takinging it to a mechanic down > the street for God knows how much moolah, or skipping Transporters > altogether, which really means we would still come in our pontiac and just > camp in a tent. > > Help! > Cari smith > >