Today I went for my second drive this year and after 10min the engine died and would not fire up again. I noticed there was (much) fuel on my baseplate from the carb. I opened up the carb to see where the fuel was coming from.
See picture: there was about 1cm of fuel on top of the throttle butterfly plate (red arrow) and the gasket was all wet (blue arrow.)
After twiddling a bit with the float and re-assembling the top of the carb I got it running again. This was all done on the roadside with the few tools I had. I got the car home. Now my own experience thinks/tells me the floatchamber overflow and flooded the carb and engine. And rebuilding the carb (and replacing the needle valve of the float.)
Any second thoughts or am I on the right track?
See picture: there was about 1cm of fuel on top of the throttle butterfly plate (red arrow) and the gasket was all wet (blue arrow.)
After twiddling a bit with the float and re-assembling the top of the carb I got it running again. This was all done on the roadside with the few tools I had. I got the car home. Now my own experience thinks/tells me the floatchamber overflow and flooded the carb and engine. And rebuilding the carb (and replacing the needle valve of the float.)
Any second thoughts or am I on the right track?