Experiment.Seven

I was just reading the "Striping down a Nikki" thread in the Archives and saw that if you have mechanical secindaries...you can remove the secondary acelerator pump?

I would think you couldn't but will someone explain to me why someone could do this please. Isn't that what pumps additional fuel for the secondaries? Or am i mistaken?

Carl responded to it and didn't say NOT to remove it...? So it must be ok...i would just like to know why though.

Thanks.

Experiment.Seven

All nighter again...


Anyone care to enlighten me?

Sterling

That's your vacuum secondary actuator box.
Unless you plan on either making your secondaries mechanical or just driving around on your primaries, leave it.

...And I'm sorry, but if you didn't even know what that was, #1, you sure as hell shouldn't be giving out carb advice to people, and #2, you probably shouldn't be "stripping down"your carb just yet, and #3, you're a long ways from converting to mech-secs.

djessence

Just an observation, you seem to be having alot of questions regarding carbs recently.

A thought would be to read through sterlings website http://www.sterlingmetalworks.com/

Ton of good info. Or maybe hold out on all the carb mods since it seemed you have been having alot of difficulty with various aspects of it and your car recently.

Experiment.Seven

Ok well i shall just figure all my carb woes on my then i suppose. I try to show the utmost respect to you Sterling yet you have to point out my faults...i didn't do anything to you. I know you know ALOT if not everything about our carbs but excercise some respect to others trying to learn. I'm sorry don't get everything right, right off the bat.



Well...goodluck to all with there carberators and such...i'm ONLY trying to learn...and apparently that is wrong to do on a Forum where EVERYONE should be allowed to be taught or corrected without having that they don't know anything pointed out to them.

- Eric

djessence

Well it could be that you irked sterling when he spent a good chunk of time troubleshooting one of your problems and you never tried (to our knowledge and came back with no that didnt work or yes it did) the stuff he had recommended.

That being said he still answered your questions so my recommendation is dont be so quick to jump to the gun tell him to exercise some respect......i mean come on. Comments like that are what stops people from posting their expertise. cuz they feel it is not appreciated. Since he gave you and answer and you replied with exercise some respect, why the hell should he answer your questions again

AGAIN, he gave you your answer and recommended that you leave it alone. That being his professional opinion since his business IS these carberetors.

dean7

Not to flame to much... But your acting like an **** man. I read some of your other topics that you created, that stering guy hooked you up and spent a good amount of time to try to help you out and IMO did it in a very nice way, so that you aren't jumping all around messing with everything on your car. Please don't take this as me dissing on you, just trying to give my thoughts on the matter as a 3rd party.

Sometimes things get stressfull..... Look at the middle or so of this forum, see my thread... Its only been up for a couple hours, but you don't see me posting how everyone MUST not like me. I spent over 12 hours reading over this carb book not including the time reading almost every thread in this forum with Dellorto in it, at least once. I have dreams of emulsion tubes and lining up my accelerator pump jets right now (it was weird, I missaligned it in my dream and then woke up Your most likly a great, nice guy but Im just saying, don't take your frustration out on people that don't deserve it. Youll look back at this later, hidsight 20 20 bla bla you get it.

Sterling

Look ES, I didn't mean to unload on you. I'm the first one to say, "Hell yeah, get out there and learn about yer carby!" And I'm no "guru to be respected". I just know about the Nikkis on our cars.
But the fact is, I did spend a bit of time & effort when you PMed me. You make helping you extremely difficult because you do seem to suffer from a bit of ADD. I'm not trying to mock you at all. It's just that carburetors, like anything else regarding cars, need a "troubleshooting protocol", like a flow chart. "Follow the fuel", I say. When people, like you, don't give much info to begin with, and then appear to be taking random stabs in the dark at your carburetor, and apparently not heeding the advice you've asked for, I get a bit frustrated.
I know for a fact that the answers to all of your questions are already here on this forum, and I know that because I helped write them. There is a great core of old-schoolers here that really know their stuff about these carburetors. I should know, because that's how I learned.
But you have to make the effort. When you didn't check off that list, you didn't make the effort. I didn't write that up to be "done with you", I wrote it up expecting to hear back from you. Once you had finished checking those 'basics', we would have moved on from there, in stead of chasing our tails around, which is precisely what you are doing right now.
The other thing that's burning me is that you obviously have not done a bit of research here.
Leave yer damn Float Levels ALONE!
I wrote this 4 1/2 years ago, and you should already know that because you should have already searched about your float levels, having replaced them "3 times". -Then, to top it off, I see you suggest to another guy with carb problem that he go messing with his floats!

I have no beef with you, and I wish you only the best of luck with your carb. I'll help when & if I still can, and I know that even if you're taking random pisses in the wind in your approach to trying to fix it, you'll prevail if for no other reason than your tenacity. You've happened to have just pressed my buttons because I have made myself unlikeable to many of my peers on this forum by telling some of the old-schoolers to lighten up on the "Search, N00b!" bullshit, only to find myself having met the limit of my own tolerance.

I'm sorry, and I will continue to help you.