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Anyone??????????



sounds like it is perking the gas and vapor locking when hot.

when you drive it 30 mins. does the carb get hot to the touch?

when it sits over night it can and will drain back to the tank sucking most of the gas from the fuel bowl. (they are know to crack and leak also) the exessive cranking is the fuel pump primeing and filling the fuel bowl back up,then she fires and runs great till it gets hot.

when you shut it down hot it will perk the gas out of the carb and flood it,then you have to hold the throttle open for it to fire and clear the cyls.

does it have an alum intake?

does it have some kind of heat dissapator under the carb?

does it have the heat cross over blocked?

some cures would be to...

check float level.

check fuel pressure.

check air/fuel ratio with a vac gauge and set curb idle and timeing.

add a carb spacer (eddiebroke suggest the 3/8" fiber base gasket they sell.)

block heat cross over on intake if it is alum or cast iron,let the electic choke do its job.

and what everyone else said too.


almost all of the eddie carbs I have used had this problem till I fixed it with these mods to keep it cool.

I found that the 4-hole stacked heat dissaptor works the best with the eddie carbs. i use 2-1/2" kits for a 1" 4-hole carb base spacer.

it is thin alum plates stacked with gaskets inbetween the alum plates. works awsome and adds a little low end torque with the 1" 4-hole spacer.

i drive 50 miles and cant touch the intake more than 2 sec but the carb stays luke warm