[T2] Carb adjustment help (longish reply)

[Paul]

Best advice I can give (same year bus, same set up) is don't mess with something that's not broke.   Your carb may go out of tune slowly over time but you reported a sudden rich fuel condition.    Sure sounds like you have a bad float or a piece of debris (fuel line guts) stuck in your fuel bowl shut off.  Easy fix for both.   Pull the top of your cover on your carb and you can check both items.   Possible installed in the vehicle with a stubby screw driver and patience     Basically remove the jam but on the check valve and tap on a piece of wood or something spray carb spray and repeat.    Float, just see if it floats in anything.    

Sorry for the long post but his has happened to me twice from small pieces of deteriorated rubber hose.  

Please report back 

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> On Aug 2, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Ric Jablonski <ricjablonski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> More info. I found the wire that goes to the fuel cut of and then on to the
> choke, was not hooked attached to the choke. What would this do?
> 
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Ric Jablonski <ricjablonski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Carb adjustment help
>> 
>> 
>> Bus: 71 camper
>> 
>> 
>> Engine 1600 SP
>> 
>> 
>> 009 dizzy
>> 
>> 
>> Condition: running rich and black smoke.
>> 
>> 
>> Last week I made to HCBF by a hair. 10 mpg and Cwis Slaymaker behind me
>> says I am blowing black smoke. Poor power on hills, 2nd gear a few pulls
>> where Cwis said he only needed 3rd.
>> 
>> Replaced plug wires, condenser, plugs, cap, rotor (tune up).  Set dwell
>> at 50, had to set points at .013  to get dwell right. Timing set to 5
>> degrees BTDC static, advance looks good at 29 degrees at 3000 + rpm. Plugs
>> gaps set. Compression 100 all around .
>> 
>> 
>> All old plugs were BLACK and sooty.
>> 
>> 
>> Valves were good. One was off .001 and reset.
>> 
>> 
>> I need some advice on carb adjustment at this point. Everything else
>> “seems dialed in”.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for any help!
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