I am looking for a carburetor float for a 1962-65 320 Nikki carb, I will buy the whole carb or just the float, the float needs to be in good condition, mine has fuel in it, I fixed it once, but it is sinking again.
Let me know what you have and how much.
If anyone knows where I can buy one let me know.
Need float for a Nikki carb
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Need float for a Nikki carb
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Re: Need float for a Nikki carb
Well I took the float to my radiator guy that I have not seen in a while, I did not recognize anyone there, I showed him the float, he said it smelt like gas, I said it has gas inside it as it was sinking, he gave it back to me and said he would not work with anything that has gas in it.
I miss the days when people actually wanted work, now days they have bought into this, this, well whatever you want to call this day and age we are in.
I took it home and tried to fix it myself again, first thing I did was set it on the stove and turned the heat on and waited to see where the gas vapors came out, I kept watching it seeing nothing, I could hear it start to boil just before without any warning it actually blew up, no vapor coming out of anywhere, it did not expand or anything, it just popped it's seams.
It did not bend it at all, the only thing it did do is pop the mount off the tank.
So I went and bought a torch and tried to fix it myself again, I am not very good at it, it looks ugly but it is back together, but I think I need someone that knows what they are doing to do it over.
The first time I put heat on it to fix it a few years ago I could see the vapor coming out of the pin hole, don't understand what happened this time, it did not seem to have a hole, but the gas got in there somehow.
What did I learn from this, don't put a float with gas in it on the stove and turn the heat on unless you know what you are doing. lol
I am still looking for a float.
I miss the days when people actually wanted work, now days they have bought into this, this, well whatever you want to call this day and age we are in.
I took it home and tried to fix it myself again, first thing I did was set it on the stove and turned the heat on and waited to see where the gas vapors came out, I kept watching it seeing nothing, I could hear it start to boil just before without any warning it actually blew up, no vapor coming out of anywhere, it did not expand or anything, it just popped it's seams.
It did not bend it at all, the only thing it did do is pop the mount off the tank.
So I went and bought a torch and tried to fix it myself again, I am not very good at it, it looks ugly but it is back together, but I think I need someone that knows what they are doing to do it over.
The first time I put heat on it to fix it a few years ago I could see the vapor coming out of the pin hole, don't understand what happened this time, it did not seem to have a hole, but the gas got in there somehow.
What did I learn from this, don't put a float with gas in it on the stove and turn the heat on unless you know what you are doing. lol
I am still looking for a float.
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Re: Need float for a Nikki carb
Are you talking about this one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Datsun-E1-J13-N ... e3&vxp=mtr
This is what my float looks like.
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