@#!% Super A Zenith Carb.

Posted by Cityboy-McCoy on September 27, 2005 at 17:14:11 from (65.0.150.173):

Boys, the carb on my Super A has about got me whipped. Bought this Super A tractor about a month ago and it was running fine. Then, it started running rich (missing and black smoke). Got worse very quickly and would quit. Carb flooded and dripping. I took the carb down, (it was dirty with rusty corrosion) cleaned it good by letting it soak in carb cleaner, cleaned all jets and passages, blew them out, etc, put it back on. Had to clean the soot off the plugs and she fired right up and ran right smooth. I thought I was a genius.
Then, it started the same thing again within 30 minutes. Sometimes I could clear it up by tapping on the bottom of the bowl - sometimes not. If it was running fine, it seemed like it would immediately run rich and rough the minute I drove the tractor 6 feet.
Went and bought a kit. In the process I learned it previously had the wrong bowl gasket. Bead-blasted the float chamber, rebuilt it again and set the float to specs. Made sure the float was good by floating it in a bucket of water for 2 hours. Made sure the float could not hang on the bowl gasket. Put it all together - clean as a whistle - with the correct initial settings, cleaned off the plugs, fired her up and she ran as smooth as an Eldorado Cadillac with a spare tire on the back. Thought I was a genius, again.
Ran fine for three days. Now, it's doing the same thing again - missing, black smoke and flooding to the point of dripping on the ground and quitting. No water in the gas, have a fuel filter good for non-pressure applications.
I ain't no Genius! Do these Zenith carbs just sometimes go bad? What am I missing here?
Thanks,
Mike

Follow Ups:

• Too Stupid To Own A Super A? Cityboy=McCoy 10:12:19 09/28/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. peter llanso 08:14:14 09/28/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. Irv Slagter 03:53:52 09/28/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. RustyFarmall 21:01:07 09/27/05 (3)
  • Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. Robert Lorencz 05:44:03 09/28/05 (2)
    • Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. Nat 05:52:10 09/28/05 (1)
      • Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. RustyFarmall 06:51:15 09/28/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. Andy in CA 20:02:37 09/27/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. the tractor vet 19:34:22 09/27/05 (1)
  • It's Got An Inline Filter Already On It. Cityboy-McCoy 02:57:52 09/28/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. ih_bug 18:58:09 09/27/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. Slappy 18:32:52 09/27/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. Mike Van 17:58:43 09/27/05 (2)
  • Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. Cityboy-McCoy 18:32:12 09/27/05 (1)
    • Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. CNKS 19:45:42 09/27/05 (0)
• Re: @#!% Super A Zenith Carb. old 17:42:40 09/27/05 (2)
  • Thanks, I'll try that. Cityboy-McCoy 18:28:35 09/27/05 (1)
    • Re: Thanks, I'll try that. Gmitch 07:41:42 09/28/05 (0)

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