haha, my 83 is doing the same thing, i "rebuilt" the carb and that didnt help too. one of us will figure it out



mike

 

well i took the carb back apart thinking i may have missed something. on the floats, there are two arms which the pin runs through to hold it in place. one of the floats the arms are bent to the side. would that maybe be an issue? oh and finally someone knows what im going through.

 

yah, i know i'm kinda pissed it wasnt the shutter valve



mike

 

gotta be the carb man.

 

haha, i was impressed with myself though, i took the carb apart and put it back together and it still runs the same



mike

 

My '83's carb was rebuilt when I bought the car and never gave me any problems.Those Nikki's are good but sounds like you guy have a pair of '83 lemons.

 

sounds like it...yeah i was so happy w/ myself when i put it back together. looks like i gotta tear it down again here in the next couple of days. new floats are coming in on monday.

 

I hope it works for you.those 12a are fun engines.

 

Yeah, I hope it is just the carb and that rebuilding it fixes it for you. Theres nothing worse than spending ages on dead ends. You fel like your running around in circles for nothing.

 

I got a question.....when you take off the upper part of the carb, and you have the floats attached, are they supposed to be even...i mean, the same amount of movement in each float. One has the amount you would assume would be right, i do, and the second has virtually no movement. I mean VERY little. So i guess what i am asking is, are the two floats supposed to have the same amount of movement, the same range of play?