help, cold start problems

[tim-andre]

There is supposed to be rubber plug at mixture screw hole, but often it is lost.

Idle adjustment screw is supposed to stay on place by spring that is between screw end and carb.

Choke screw, hmm, I think that there was diagraph (was that the word?) and spring under that and it made also screw enough sticky not to open by itself?

ahhh, didnt know that, does it have to be made of something special? or can i make it from som rubber i have lying around?

i think its suposed to stay in place by the bolt thingy thats on it, but it does not, so it kinda pisses me of sometimes

[jtbo]

Electric tape did not work well, but piece of sponge did work fine. Just something put to hole to make it isolated. There is other bit too, adjustment screw should have O-ring in it, there is kind of 'neck' in screw for that, it is important bit that does part of the seal and also helps screw to stay on place.

Oh, that is of course assuming you have Solex carb, I just remembered that they came with other carbs at early years.

edit:
This is mixture screw in Solex, deep in a hole:


This is busted idle solenoid o-ring, but also at lower right of photo you can see idle speed screw and spring in there:

full image
http://jtbo.pp.fi/images/360/cisac2/album/IMG_3190.JPG

There is 93 photos from carb that I took when I did put it to pieces first time ever, so I know to put everything back correct way too:
http://jtbo.pp.fi/images/album/360/cisac2/album/
Photo 94 shows location of idle speed screw and on that photo at top right is choke adjustment screw.

Might be helpful to know or not, but makes it easier to tell what I'm talking about when one can see it from picture, my words can be completely wrong ones to describe them

[tim-andre]

i got the strömberg 175 on it, thinking of buying some other carbs, maybe delorto or weber
adjustment screw stays in place, its the idle screw and choke screw/bolt that doesnt, choke screw now glued with loctite, so it stays in place
and i think i might have it running too rich, may be one of the reasons the idle screw unscrews itself sometimes

and thanks, its very helpfull

[jtbo]

In my carburettor book, there are really lot of carbs, but that is only one missing, so can't put up scan of that

[tim-andre]

thats weird since its one of the most used carbs around