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Old 10-24-2017, 05:50 PM
KirkV KirkV is offline
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Ok I am not an engine builder etc and know enough to be dangerous, but this one is beyond me by a mile.

Any help here would be appreciated.

So the rear 4 air intakes on my Weber’s when covered appear to pick up a little rpm and not stumble the engine as the front 4 did.

So I put about 30 seconds worth of regulated propane in the oil fill spout to attempt to see if I had an intake gasket leak on the bottom of the intake as the top has yielded no indications of a leak on top with carb cleaner sprayed everywhere.

So the engine did not care at 30 seconds and there was no increase in rpms. Now here’s where it gets interesting.

I wondered if I was putting enough volume of propane in the cavity so I ran the hose over number 8 air intake and the rpms jumped right up. But the test yielded that the rear 4 numbers 7,8,3, and 4 all increased when the hose ran over them.

However numbers 1,2,5, and 6 all stumble and want to kill the engine when the hose is ran across them?

How Is it possible for 1/2 of the engine to want one thing and the other to want something else? The idle jet holders are all the same jets and air bleed hole size. I can tell you that even when I had my Demon carb on the engine the rear mix screws did not get the same response the front ones did.

On the Weber’s I can screw the mix screw all the way in on the rear 4 sets and it does not even stumble but the front 4 will almost kill the engine with the same adjustment.

Sorry but totally at a loss here and could use some advise.

Thanks
Kirk
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