[tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy

  • From: Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:03:43 -0500

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
>
>

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