Whoa! Did I just flood my engine?

crazypete · 12-06-2002, 12:27 PM

This is my first carb ever, so I'm still learning as I go along...

Thanks for all your patience

I was setting the floats on my new holley 670 street avenger. These have the little windows, but I hate them cause they fog over in seconds and you can barely see anything through them. I looked like the primary bowl was WAAAAAY too low since it looked totally clear (the secondary is nice and golden) so I kept raising and raising the float level but it still didnt look right, so I kept going. All of a sudden, the rpms drop from the nice 1000 or so idle that I set to like a couple hundred. Seemed like the engine was fighting something. Then it died. I restarted it and it still seemed like it was fighting something. Then I went back op front and there was gas everywhere! It was all over the carb to air cleaner gasket, so it must have blow up through the carb. I propped the primary and secondary plates open and pulled all the plugs. They were black. Pitch black. Looked like #3 and #7 were wet (#3 especially). I have a fan blowing air in through the top of the engine right now

What should I do next?

12-06-2002, 12:27 PM	#1
crazypete Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 592	Whoa! Did I just flood my engine? This is my first carb ever, so I'm still learning as I go along... Thanks for all your patience I was setting the floats on my new holley 670 street avenger. These have the little windows, but I hate them cause they fog over in seconds and you can barely see anything through them. I looked like the primary bowl was WAAAAAY too low since it looked totally clear (the secondary is nice and golden) so I kept raising and raising the float level but it still didnt look right, so I kept going. All of a sudden, the rpms drop from the nice 1000 or so idle that I set to like a couple hundred. Seemed like the engine was fighting something. Then it died. I restarted it and it still seemed like it was fighting something. Then I went back op front and there was gas everywhere! It was all over the carb to air cleaner gasket, so it must have blow up through the carb. I propped the primary and secondary plates open and pulled all the plugs. They were black. Pitch black. Looked like #3 and #7 were wet (#3 especially). I have a fan blowing air in through the top of the engine right now What should I do next? __________________ 91 GT Carb conversion, holley 600 double pumper, edelbrock performer intake, FMS "C" drop springs, march 1000 underdrive pullies, crane 1.7 roller rockers, GT-40P headers, bassani x pipe, american thunder catback, FMS 4.56's, msd aL6, trunkmount battery, A/C eliminator kit, 3000 stall tci streetfighter, AOD with transgo kit, A+ servo, 300M hardened lockup shaft, kevlar bands and 28,000 gvw trans cooler, 3 core radiator, 300 lbs stripped with a full interior

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