Carb leak

[Steve]

My carb has a leak where the arrow points on the pic.It's around one drip of fuel per 4 seconds while car is idleing.How do I repair this please.

 

[69hemibeep]

Its real common for that to back off a bit after you tighten the steel fuel line. Loosen the fuel line tighten the fitting to the bowl and keep a wrench on it as you tighten the fuel line again. If its tight then we go to plan B... What do you call a wrench? A spanner or something like that?

 

[moparchris]

5/8" wrench, loosen the smaller fitting. With a 1" wrench tighten the fitting in the fuel bowl. Dont get too crazy tightening it as it will strip if you go gorilla on it. Then tighten the 5/8" nut on your chrome fuel line. If it still leaks there is a metal gasket under it that could be bad.

 

[Steve]

Didn't realise it was just a case of tightening the nut to fix it :facepalm: Rookie mistake. Thanks Bob,Chris

 

[moparchris]

No problemo. :cheers:

 

[69hemibeep]

Glad it was easy