So, I'm rebuilding my first Solex carb...

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01/21/2014 at 22:11 • Filed to: None

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...as fitted to a Landie version anyway. It was immediately seen that the choke was not a choke, but in fact a rotary valve with an air tube that mixes gas and air in a little pre-chamber with a heater. Neat, elegant even, but a bit "what in the everloving fuck..." I made a picture.

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01/22/2014 at 10:51

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Carburetors were invented by the devil. And that appears to be the most fiendishly complicated one ever.