Carb troubleshooting

[MrMagoo]

Ron, this appears to be Quick Fuel specific. It says right in the Quick Fuel installation instructions: "Half way up the sight glass", as other Quick Fuel owners have also mentioned. Clearly, this would be impossible with plugs. It would be really interesting to find out why the Quick Fuel carbs are set up this way. On other odd thing I noticed when I took out the float bowls: the primary float was brass, the secondary float was nitrophyl. It doesn't matter to me since I won't be running methanol, but that seemed odd, I wonder if this is done for any specific reason.

Other questions for carb gurus: I bought a tech paper from Don Gould at 4secondsflat.com (although it deals primarily with Demon carbs, it is really a well written and informative paper for general fuel system issues; I highly recommend it) thats says the relationship between primary and secondary jets should be 8#'s, with the secondaries being obviously larger. Anyone else know about that?

I used Don Gould's paper to get my 4 corner idle mixture screws balanced and my take off problem is basically solved. The exhaust smells a little rich now, but not too noticeably so.

WTM442, Don Gould's method has you check the pump lever clearance at idle, start full lean, back out 1 turn on the primary screws and 3/4 on the secondaries, then you tap the accelerator pump to see if it increases RPM, in which case you know which direction (rich or lean) you need to go. I did this, and I am in a fairly good place right now, so I am assuming the pump is working, it was just my idle mixture that was screwed up (too lean, I think).