Farmall A Zenith Carb float problems

jamieei · May 31, 2009

Finally got everything straightened out with this tractor except the float seems like it either wants to not let gas in the carb or it won't stop it from coming in no matter how much I adjust it. The carb was rebuilt by someone about six months ago (before I bought it) and it would constantly overflow. The float doesn't have any gas in it when I take it apart so I assume the float itself can't be the problem. I read about setting the rubber tipped needle by hand on these and that didn't seem to help. Any ideas? I got the tractor running finally for about a minute and a half today because I let the carb fill up and then shut off the gas coming into the carb manually. When it fired up and I throttled it up to full speed, I cut the gas back on and it ran great for over a minute until I idled it down and it flooded out. I felt like maybe the float was getting hung up on the sides of the carb, but I think I have eliminated that as a problem, but I can't seem to get the float adjustment right... Help

Allan from PA · Jun 1, 2009

Rebuilt a Zenith carb not too long ago and had a heck of a time getting it to work right. After some help from this forum and a lot of head scratching I found that the float needle that came in the rebuilt kit was wrong. You may have to rebuild the carb with a reputable kit.

jamieei · Jun 1, 2009

I was kinda wondering if that might be the problem... I had a similar issue with the carb off my M and ended up using the original needle for it. I had thought about getting a kit from NAPA. any recommendations?

CGtractor · Jun 1, 2009

I used a kit from napa on a zenith carb off my B farmall and it had the wrong needle in it. I would try a source other than napa.

Farmall A Zenith Carb float problems

jamieei

Member

Allan from PA

Member

jamieei

Member

CGtractor

Member

Similar threads