HELP NEEDED, SAMMY RUNNING FAULT CARB? HELP

[sharper13]

Hi
I have a fault on my f reg sammy i have a standard carb fitted and managed to park the whole truck in the bottom of a ditch filling my fuel tank with water.
it would run but then die after spraying carb cleaner down the mouth of the carb.

I removed the tank emptied it cleaned thru my petrol lines stripped and rebuilt the carb, replaced the fuel filter.

the problem i am left with is driving down the road at a constant speed for a while the engine starts to splutter it may clear or will completely die, it sounds almost like its either flooding the bores or running out of petrol.

however on a green lane it is fine the fault can appear 500m from my house or 10 miles with the car hot or cold. with either clearing completely or not starting for a while.

Any help would be great.

[baz2236]

Put a rag in the tank and burn it.

oh yeah won't burn that well when full of water.

[sharper13]

behave or ill buy a landrover?

[sharper13]

isnt that the truck i had to tow home yesterday

[markyb]

sounds to me as you have crap in the carb and you might as well throw the carb away ,

failing that check all the vacum hoses they cause no end of trouble

[generation-x]

bin the standard carb and fit an su or nikki carb :D

simon

[wheelspinner]

As its said in the previous thread once the standard carb is running poorly that is it.

I put a Nikki on mine and it is a world away, performance wise, from the standard carb.There are write ups on suzuki tech for fitting and it is literally an hours job.You can get them off ebay for £30, mine came off a beetle 1300.

Alternatively Scoobystu on difflock http://www.difflock.com/forum will do you a cheap su adaptor if you are interested.He alsp offers some decent advice if you run into trouble.

Regards

Steve

[rollazuki]

Personal opinion(from experience)..............you are chasing the wrong problem!

I dont think the ditch has anything to do with the current problem, I think its caused by the current cold weather we are suffering.
The carb fitted to the sammy is basically overcomplicated and crap. It suffers from everything, including CARB ICING.

pop the bonnet, and check the flexible metal pipe that comes from the exhaust manifold shield to the airbox is fitted, not adrift, and not split.

Then check if the little 'T' piece valve on the air intake is set to recieve hot air from this pipe, or if its drawing cold air from the inner wing area.

If you ensure the carb is fed with warm/hot air from the manifold, I guess your poor running will go away.

Usually, if you do suffer from carb icing, if you let the truck stand for 20 mins, the carb will defrost, and usually restart(unless you have flooded it trying to get the POS started)