55 Fargo Posted November 1, 2009 Report Posted November 1, 2009 Hi all, went to town this afternoon to mail Robins Sumac red paint piece sample from my parts car. I smelled gas on the way, but popped hood and did not notice anything, carb a little wet, but thats not unusual for a Carter B&B. When I got home the gas smell was strong, popped hood, sure enough leaking gas out the glass bowl at the gasket area, dripping on warm manifolds, good thing it was only like 40 here. Tonight readjusted the glass bowl against the gasket, retightened the nut by hand only, it stopped leaking. Now I am not exactly sure I have this baby installed right, and do not know for sure whether I will yank it out and keep it for display. It is a very nice Carter unit, but a little leary about using it in hotter weather.....Fred Quote
Normspeed Posted November 1, 2009 Report Posted November 1, 2009 Fred is it a cork gasket? I had a rubber gasket on a similar bowl on my tractor and the fuel (maybe due to the alcohol content) attacked the rubber, which became soft and distorted. Quote
55 Fargo Posted November 1, 2009 Author Report Posted November 1, 2009 Fred is it a cork gasket? I had a rubber gasket on a similar bowl on my tractor and the fuel (maybe due to the alcohol content) attacked the rubber, which became soft and distorted. Hi Norm, no it'sa rubber gasket, don't think it has anything to do with fule yet. The glass bowl had a bit of a har time seating into this gaket to begin with, seems the bowl lip does not seat all the way into the filter , and the rubber gasket gets distorted easily, some thing like it's owner.....LOL PS Happy Halloween, just got back with the kids at 8:00 Pm CDT, it was not bad here for halloween 37 and calm tonight, but no snow........ Quote
Don G 1947 Posted November 3, 2009 Report Posted November 3, 2009 Fred, On fuel pumps with glass bowls the casting warps over time and the bowl does not seat properly. The way to correct this is to get some adhesive backed sandpaper, place the lip of the bowl on the sticky side and then cut around the bowl with a utility knife. Now take the bowl and use it to flatten the casting by turning it back and forth. If you don't have adhesive backed sandpaper use regular sandpaper and some spray adhesive. It took me quite a while to flatten mine using 80 grit paper. Good luck, Don Quote
1949P17BC Posted November 4, 2009 Report Posted November 4, 2009 Been there done that. Just need to tighten Quote
Frank M. Posted November 4, 2009 Report Posted November 4, 2009 The glass bowls originally had cork gaskets. Fairly thick too. Frank M. Quote
47heaven Posted November 5, 2009 Report Posted November 5, 2009 I just replaced mine with one similar to this. http://partimages.genpt.com/partimages/45404.jpg Quote
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