Carburetor and Fuel System
Title: Linkert
float
Need to replace the float in my Linkert M 74....should I use a foam or a brass one ( or was that bronze?).
Anyone else running the Linkert out there?
thanks, Haggis
Post by Cotten on Jul 15, 2003, 5:40am
The original corks weighed 3 grams.
The brass floats from India weigh 9 grams, but one out of four leaks.
The American-made Kokesh's doen't leak,.. but they weigh a whopping 12 grams or more.
By that time, you have set your float so low that it is almost out of travel. Their inertia makes them so sluggish that gas mileage goes out your pipes.
My local Midwestern QuickyMart gasoline (P4gas) is incredibly digestive. There's something much worse than Our Good Friend Ethanol in there. It eats every tank sealant, even baked two-part epoxies.
Sealers would add float weight anyway, giving you just as must tail-chasing to find a decent float setting,... and then hopeng the petroleum companies don't put too much laxative in the gas someday.
The falsely named "Armstrong" floats in mailorder catalogs are NOT the original black foam material.
....Just as well, as it does not survive six months in the P4gas either.
The light colored foam offerings go to hell right before your eyes. Even though the gas is not "oxygenated" as their packages warn.
The solution was important for me, so I located the source of the same foam used currently by all major auto manufacturers. Alas, it could not be molded economically. But it is machineable from stock.
So I can offer ultralight gas-PROOF floats for Linkert and Schebler carburetors.
T'aint cheap...but your machine will run like it was designed to.
Enough spam, Please post me direct.
Post by 53rigidrider on Jul 16, 2003, 1:30am
This site might help with your situation, or at least be a parts reference.
http://www.nosparts.com/database/parts/Section_inlet/Page_2
Good luck! ;D
