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A18A
10-21-2008, 07:48 PM
im pretty sure im the first one to remove this carb from its manifold, to find this fugly crack in it
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff295/88vigor/100_9829Large.jpg
what could of caused that?
1ajs
10-21-2008, 07:52 PM
WTF? perhaps this car had water in there when it was in japan and it froze?
codyJDM
10-21-2008, 08:13 PM
Maybe it's cause 3geezus got tired of carbs?

:tongue:
lostforawhile
10-21-2008, 08:35 PM
someone eithier hit the carb at some point, or someone at a point in time over torqued the carb to manifold nuts,thats the main thing that causes this. It even says in my chiltons that over torquing the nuts can crack the flange. that flange is aluminum it's soft.
lostforawhile
10-21-2008, 08:43 PM
my guess is there was some sort of vaccume leak and someone tightened the piss out of the nuts trying to fix it. that sometimes worked on old cars with flat gaskets, but it doesn't fix the o ring type gaskets. doesn't take much torque to seal the carb.
chowder
10-21-2008, 10:30 PM
yea thats no good hah
MessyHonda
10-21-2008, 11:55 PM
wow...bad torque sequence
A18A
10-22-2008, 12:09 AM
hmm odd cause the bolts holding it down wernt that tight, maybe its been tampered with many moons ago? oh well. fuel injection for the win :)
Dr_Snooz
10-22-2008, 06:59 AM
Zoinks! That's ugly. Of course, you never feel bad pitching a Keihin into the trash. FI, FTW!!!!
2oodoor
10-22-2008, 07:04 AM
Maybe it's cause 3geezus got tired of carbs?

:tongue:

uhhhh WONG !


looks like sombody over tightend it or maybe that screw holding the throttle plate there is sticking out some so it cracked when it got tightend.
Or it didnt have enough antifreeze, I suppose that is possible.