My First 7

[WJPez]

It takes a bit of fiddling to get the choke back together.

Keep trying, and eventually you work out how it goes.

There may be a diagram of the carb on one of the club websites.



Just for the help it might be:

When I take a carb bowl off:

I throw the fuel in it on to a flat surface like a paving slab - this tells you if there is water in the system, you can see the bigger blobs of water on the evaporating fuel.

Then I blow through the little nozzle on the outside of the bowl, with my finger over the biggest hole in the top surface (the compensating well).   You should get two jets of fuel to show the main carb jets are not bloocked.

Two simple diagnostic tests if "running rough", and the first thing I do.

Simon

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PS.

When putting the carb - or nearly anything on a Seven - do not overtighten, or you will strip the threads.

If the threads in the bowl have really gone you can bodge a certain amont of grip with a bit of card down the holes, and then, as already said, use cable ties to hold it together.   It will run for ages like that, but not so easy to take the bowl off to do the checks previously suggested.

Simon

Thanks, I have managed to get it back together. Just need to test it now.

Wayne

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It runs, going to leave work now and see if i can make it home.

Wayne