On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:53:10 -0400, mm
wrote:

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.

It said to use the handle of a screwdriver iirc. I learned this when
a friend called me from a downtown parking garage. I didn't expect
the owner's manual to help but it was all I had and I read it anyhow.
By golly it said what to do, but it was sad if you ask me..

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.

Rather than change the manual why not fix the car. She waited for two
hours before she reached me and I got there. And most boyfriends
wouldn't have read the manual and she'd still be there.

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