Helping a friend with his to30. A
little history. He called and said it
wouldn't start. Figuring he isn't one
for troubleshooting I divided in.
Needed the standard, plugs, rotor, cap,
points, condenser and before in the
carb. Adjusted the float per the kit
instructions and put it all back
together. Adjusted the load needle to
factoryish settings.
Put them all in and after getting the
plug wires in the correct order, it
fired right up. It ran well, etc etc.
He calls me a couple weeks later and
says gas is boiling. After digging
through the archives common thing is
running lean. I suggest opening the
load needle some to see if that fixes
the problem. Seems it didn't make a
difference. It set right now at 2 1/8
out. I don't remember what the kit
said, but he is saying the float is
9/16" off the gasket. Is that too low
and could that cause the thing to rub
so lean it would boil the gas in the
tank? It was warm that day, probably in
the 90s, but not excessively hot out.
I'm open to ideas.
I did check timing, it wasn't changed
when playing with the points and it
didn't boil before the tune up, but it
didn't run well enough to run it hard
before.
Thanks.
little history. He called and said it
wouldn't start. Figuring he isn't one
for troubleshooting I divided in.
Needed the standard, plugs, rotor, cap,
points, condenser and before in the
carb. Adjusted the float per the kit
instructions and put it all back
together. Adjusted the load needle to
factoryish settings.
Put them all in and after getting the
plug wires in the correct order, it
fired right up. It ran well, etc etc.
He calls me a couple weeks later and
says gas is boiling. After digging
through the archives common thing is
running lean. I suggest opening the
load needle some to see if that fixes
the problem. Seems it didn't make a
difference. It set right now at 2 1/8
out. I don't remember what the kit
said, but he is saying the float is
9/16" off the gasket. Is that too low
and could that cause the thing to rub
so lean it would boil the gas in the
tank? It was warm that day, probably in
the 90s, but not excessively hot out.
I'm open to ideas.
I did check timing, it wasn't changed
when playing with the points and it
didn't boil before the tune up, but it
didn't run well enough to run it hard
before.
Thanks.