« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Stripped float needle holder hole  (Read 902 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline tuckholladay

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 35
Stripped float needle holder hole
« on: June 28, 2018, 02:37:38 pm »
So I was attempting to clean my carbs for the first time.  Everything was going pretty well until the head of the screw holding down the float needle snapped off.  I tried to reverse tap it with a screw extractor but it just got mangled.



I do t even know if it can be retapped with a bigger screw at this point I don’t think the remains of the old screw are completely out.  Do I need to just start looking for a new carb?  Has anyone had this happen?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Logged

Offline piefairy

  • Enthusiast
  • **
  • Posts: 175
Re: Stripped float needle holder hole
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2018, 05:49:05 pm »
I once dated a girl that stripped my float needle... but that was different.

It looks awfully thin to re-tap it. If you have dripped and tried to extract it, try putting in a pipe cleaner or very small wire brush into the hole with some lubricant. Turn it counter clockwise and see if you can get what looks like old thread out. If the threads in the carb are still not grabbing, maybe a self tapping metal screw? It will take work to get it into solid metal, but it may save you money.

How did you break the head off anyways? I hope you weren't using power tools... always ends badly IMO.
Logged

Offline calj737

  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *******
  • Posts: 21,006
  • I refuse...
Re: Stripped float needle holder hole
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2018, 08:05:20 pm »
You can contact Jim French through this forum and send that to him. He can perform miracles with his micro TIG welding and return to you a nearly factory perfect carb body for a fraction of the price of hassling with a replacement.
Logged
'74 550 Build http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=126401.0
'73 500 Build http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132935.0

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of it's victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

Offline tuckholladay

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 35
Re: Stripped float needle holder hole
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2018, 03:15:03 am »
Quote from: piefairy on June 28, 2018, 05:49:05 pm

How did you break the head off anyways? I hope you weren't using power tools... always ends badly IMO.

No power tools just snapped right off, I did use a power drill to try and reverse thread and untap which is definitely when it got mangled


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Logged

Offline evinrude7

  • not a kung-fu
  • Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,099
  • something to hüsker
Re: Stripped float needle holder hole
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2018, 05:41:16 am »
Logged
cb750 k6 - ugly

Offline tuckholladay

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 35
Re: Stripped float needle holder hole
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2018, 06:04:03 am »
Quote from: evinrude7 on June 29, 2018, 05:41:16 am
+1 for jim french http://www.jmfmicroweld.com/ContactUs.php


Ok thanks, I emailed. 


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »