Why does my carb leak when I tilt the motor on arrival at the shore?
‘Cos there’s a little hole in the float chamber….. (Villiers or Amal 2 Jet) You will get used to gauging how far you can go on a carb full. Turn off the engine fuel tap and tank air vent, on your approach, then be ready to row a yard or two. It will leak out if you have any left in the carb bowl. Lay the motor down before you put it in the car, to ensure you do not get gassed Motors been laid up for a while in my shed and now it wont fire up. Could be old fuel, see above. Some times I have found that the points, (on points models!), seem to get a coating on them. It may be damp and salt, with the flywheel stopping in the right, or wrong! place, the points may have been open. Take off the flywheel nut. Normal right hand thread. Use a ring spanner or socket, (BSF/Whit sizes), given a sharp tap with a soft-faced hammer will free it. Remove the rope pulley and expose the points. They are in the little round, brass lidded box on the Villiers ignitions. Clean the points with fine emery pap
