Posted by: gipf - 16 September 2009 17:30:14
My carb has a leakage at the throttle spindle and won't start!............HELP!

Posted by: pre67vw - 16 September 2009 17:43:12
What sort of help do you need? Sounds like you need to have your carb rebuilt, or a replacement one...? It's probably just as well that it doesn't start, it's surely a bit of a fire hazzard to drive it while leaking.

Posted by: VW Stan - 16 September 2009 17:52:35
I can recommend the Carburetter Exchange in Leighton Buzzard. They reconditioned the 26VFIS on my car and it came back looking like NOS! :d "The throttle spindle housing is re-bushed using P.T.F.E. lined glacier type bushes and line reamed to correct tolerance." [url=https://www.carbex.demon.co.uk/]https://www.carbex.demon.co.uk/[/url]

Posted by: 54 Gertie - 16 September 2009 18:00:30
Seems you have come across the throttle wear the hard way. :wink: Im suprised that it wont run at all, I can see it not idling. On later cars I believe they thought to put a sacrificial bushing in there, but not on these old ones. :? Im sure that any decent machine shop could knock you up a bush to fill the gap?