You can use a trickling hose when looking for vacuum leaks, a lot
cheaper than carb cleaner.
The small amount of water sucked in through the leak will do the engine
no harm.
As soon as the water flows over the leak the engine speed will increase
and you will hear the water being sucked in.
On some carbs there is a vacuum pipe about where you describe, for going
to the distributor i think.
The fiesta has the distributor vacuum coming from the side on the inlet
manifold.
Just wondering if this carb has a extra pipe ?
As an aside, supposedly pouring water slowly into the air intake cleans
out the combustion chambers.
Just keep the revs up and don't put in too much water, if it starts
misfiring it's too much.
I've tried it on a couple of cars with no ill effects.
I think the idea is the water flashes into steam when the fuel burns so
its a bit like steam cleaning the combustion chambers.
Jim
On 07/05/2016 11:57, Niall McCracken wrote:
James
Thanks for the offer that's very kind. But yes runs like a dream under load
it's just on idle (or not being on idle!) that's the prob. Made some progress
this morning though, bought some carb cleaner and started playing around -
looks like there is a vacuum leak. It's either somewhere around the base plate
under where the throttle mechanism goes into the body - or in the throttle
mechanism itself. Can't be sure and now the car is overheating so I'll go back
out in an hour and have another play!
Niall
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