The P1800 has sat for a few weeks so I fire it up and drive it for a while today. When I stop, I think it smells like fuel so I shut 'er down and peek under the hood. Both carbs dripping fuel on the heat shield. So I tighten up the little tubes that run from the bottom of the float bowls to the jets. One of them was a good turn and a half loose. Problem solved.

Here's the wierd part. This car sat in my Ma's garage for a year before I drove it to where I live. I put a set of carbs on it Spring of '04, everything was OK and I drove it 200 miles to Ma's house. In November '04, I went back, fired it up and the carbs were leaking on the manifold. Tightened things and stopped the leak. I left it there until spring of '05 when I fired it up and the carbs were leaking AGAIN from the same place. This time the tightening routine did not fix the leak.

So I had a different set of SUs, ones fresh off a 122 sedan that I had driven for a few hundred miles with no problems. I install those. The car runs better and no more leak on the manifold. Drove those carbs 500 miles home and around town once a week or so since March. Then today, gas on the manifold again. The choke isn't even hooked up on the one that leaked the worst so I would like to know...

Who has been following me around and lifting my hood in the dead of night to loosen the fuel lines at the bottom of my fuel bowls?

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