[Ford blue blood]

Originally Posted by t-bird-art

Thanks for the feedback.

The carb floats have a fine tension spring mounted on the float shaft designed to keep the floats from bouncing around over rough terrain .

When the tension spring is missing, the needle moves off it's seat and fuel immediately spurts into carb flooding the engine.

and starts a fire if the hit was hard enough! Hense the bad rep of the teapots! OOPS, we are talking about a 4100 here not the older teapot. Ya the springs need to be there for more then just bumps.