Accelerator Pump
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:38 pm
Hey everybody.
With Mike Nixon's book and some help from Dave McMunn I've managed to disassemble, clean, reassemble and static test my carbs. Prior to this project, my accelerator pump was non functional. During the static check the acclerator pump worked, but not real well. The #3 and 4 carbs squirted, #2 and #5 were weak and #1 and #6 barely squirted at all. I used Randakk's kit but didn't replace my accelerator pump diaphram because mine seemed to be in very good condition so I wasn't sure what my problem was. After I read some of the posts in this section it came to me that maybe my old diaphram was too stiff from age. Sure enough, I replaced it with the new one and now all six accelerator pump nozzles squirt a good healthy shot of fuel. Sure am glad I did the static check like Dave suggested. :)
With Mike Nixon's book and some help from Dave McMunn I've managed to disassemble, clean, reassemble and static test my carbs. Prior to this project, my accelerator pump was non functional. During the static check the acclerator pump worked, but not real well. The #3 and 4 carbs squirted, #2 and #5 were weak and #1 and #6 barely squirted at all. I used Randakk's kit but didn't replace my accelerator pump diaphram because mine seemed to be in very good condition so I wasn't sure what my problem was. After I read some of the posts in this section it came to me that maybe my old diaphram was too stiff from age. Sure enough, I replaced it with the new one and now all six accelerator pump nozzles squirt a good healthy shot of fuel. Sure am glad I did the static check like Dave suggested. :)