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Re: Bloody Carburettors

A few phone calls later, and it turns out that the Zenith 2B2 carb is > > like rocking horse shit, and it will cost me £140+VAT to have it > > refurbed. Argh! > > > > > Have a look on
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> You sure it isn't a Pierburg 2E2 or 2E3? > They were fitted to Golfs including Autos > > The Zenith was only fitted to the Passat, Santana, and Scirroco from the > mid 70'2-mid '80's period.

I'm almost sure it will be a Pierburg carb on your Golf. Does it have a loop of steel wich hooks over the airfilter to hold it down onto the top of the carb? Also dubels up nicley as a carrying handel... about the most usfull bit on the whole carb! Toby

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TVS
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Definitely. It's stamped 2B on the side. And matches up to the pic of the 2B in the Haynes book.

*ding*

I've decided that it's had a replacement engine. Most likely a 1.6 from a Scirocco.

Aye. I've looked already. £170-ish for a twin-choke Weber. That'll do me

- although I have a lead on someone in Carlisle selling used Zenith / Pierberg / Solex carbs.

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SteveH

Wouldn't cost a huge amount more to get a complete damaged 16V Golf and replace the complete engine, gearbox and nice reliable Bosch injection system.

Homer.

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Homer

Heh.. Nice idea, but I really don't want the hassle of pissing about with 20-odd year old 'lectrics and a 16v loom :-(

So I'll have to stick with carbs.

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SteveH

  1. Because I can't afford 2
  2. Because 2x twin-choke Webers would be wasted on a 1.6 slushomatic

:-)

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SteveH

SteveH raved thus:

:: Looks like a shiny new twin-choke Weber might have to be ordered.

Why stop at one? :o)

Abo

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Abo

What symptoms? Er.. Vacuum advance?

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Peter Hill

Takes a lot of cranking to fire up, then dies again.

But if I get an assistant to hold a piece of card over the inlets, then it'll run roughly up to a few thousand rpm - as soon as you take the card away, it dies again.

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SteveH

Stick a couple of nails in the inlets, tape them there with gaffer tape and there you go :)

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Dan405

Pull out the nail, fit a nitrous solenoid and fire some gas in there. Find another little hole and fire some fuel in there.

Result? Better than before the wave.

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Burgerman

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