On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:35:34 -0400, Stubby
wrote:



My old car suffered a stuck float valve once. Gas kept on pouring into
the carburetor and one in to flood the engine. I paniced and the dealer
sold me a $1200 replacement. Later on I was reading an old engine
repair book that said the first thing to do is whack the carburetor up
the side with a rubber mallet to dislodge stuck floats. I'll bet that
would have worked and no disassembly would have been required.

This was such a common problem for the volkswagon beetle in the 60's
that the Owners Manual actually said to hit the carburetor if the car
wouldn't start.

And it wasn't on a piece of paper taped inside after the manual was
printed. It was included in the regular text of the manual. They'd
obviously been having the problem for years.


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