MG-Cars.net

Welcome to our resource for MG Car Information.

Recommendations

Parts

MG parts spares and accessories are available for MG T Series (TA, MG TB, MG TC, MG TD, MG TF), Magnette, MGA, Twin cam, MGB, MGBGT, MGC, MGC GT, MG Midget, Sprite and other MG models from British car spares company LBCarCo.

MG TD TF 1500 - Overflow pipes

Here is an interesting Float Bowl Overflow Pipe arrangement on the "Award Winning" TD,,300593849817, IMBW, but it seems like the overflow pipes are connected to each other...


STEVE WINCZE

Looks like the aft pipe goes down, then up to a T of some sort. What about gravity? Would any overflow even get to the T?
efh Haskell

ED,
I don't see the "T".... although there seems to be two colors of pipe from the aft bowl,,, below the front bowl I see the engine front bracket,,,
STEVE WINCZE

Steve, right above where the choke cable connects to the rear jet lever, appears to be a piece of copper sleeving that might be joining the two pieces of tubing. Bud
Bud Krueger

Looks like a recipe for disasterous running.

Without vents, the float bowls will operate at fuel pump pressure, not atmospheric pressure.

The carb functions by metering gas in the lower pressure/higher velocity venturi, with atmospheric pressure a constant force.

Also would be very prone to vapor lock as there's nowhere for vapor to go but into the engine AFTER fuel gets consumed.
Jim Northrup

Bud,
YUP,,, that's the two colors of pipe that I was referring to from the aft bowl,,

.
.
SPW
STEVE WINCZE

I'm sorry Steve, did you say "award winning"????
D. Sander

Yea, Award winning either in its previous life or in the mind of the owner.
Bruce Cunha

Yup,,,

Millwakee British Car Field Day,,, 2005,,,
Class TD-TF,,,2nd place..
.
.
SPW
STEVE WINCZE

Hey Steve, Wouldn't you think the horns on the wrong side would go glug glug instead of beep beep?
Bob
R.AF. Robert Finucane

This thread was discussed between 06/09/2011 and 07/09/2011

MG TD TF 1500 index

This thread is from the archive. The Live MG TD TF 1500 BBS is active now.