Carburetor, Model A

[Len, New Haven, VT]

I have a styled Model A, 6 speed straight, S# 666598, gasoline. The carburetor is a DLTX-71.

The tractor was stored for me and the carb got gummed up. Float stuck, etc. Scraped it out, and it started up and it does run but not well under load at all.

Question: When I pull the Carb bowl down, the center Retaining Spring comes out of the tube going to the body of the carb, but the nozzle (Part R 10116R) doesn't drop out. Should it? I have sprayed carb cleaner into it from the bottom (inserted tube from carb cleaner can up and sprayed). I don't want to damage the nozzle by scraping at it from below.

Anyone have advice? Do I need to take the carb off and soak it in a cleaner?

Thanks!

LEN BULL

 

[SemperFi]

The nozzle should but most of the time they wont. You need a jet puller or what I do is take a screw and screw in enough not to damage it and pull it out. You can take it off and soak it but you need a manuel to find out where all those passages are to clean them out good

 

[PBrowning]

Len -- Shoot me a note to open a channel -- I will send you some illustrated instructions for removing the nozzle. It's not rocket science, but there ARE right and wrong ways to do things!

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[Len, New Haven, VT]

Thanks SemperFi. And a salute to you on Memorial Day. Thanks for whatever you did to earn that handle!

LEN

 

[SemperFi]

I spent 8 yrs in the Marines and got out about a year 1/2 ago. If I knew the job market was going to be this bad I would have stayed in. And thank you!

 

[Robert Searcy]

I have rebuilt several DLTX carbs of various models and yes there are many orfices in them that run all different directions. The best thing I have ever found for cleaning them out is guitar strings. They are stiff and rigid and the wound ones will pick up stuff and drag it out on the ridges.

 

[Len, New Haven, VT]

Having a daughter in Army (deployed to Bosnia, Hungary and most recent 14 mo in Afghanistan..probably back next year.. we appreciate all that you do.

Yesterday was a special day for our family.

Thanks.

 

[Len, New Haven, VT]

All:

Thanks for the help! I found that the nozzle end was in fact threaded for a machine screw. Put a long one in and tapped down using a crescent wrench behind the screw head, and it slid out. Cleaned it with cleaner and used bristle from painbrush on small holes, put it back together (had to make a cork gasket for the bowl which will probably seep or dissolve due to ethanol), cranked it up and it ran great!

The guitar string idea is a good one! I have an auditorium flat-top that needs new strings anyway!

LEN