There it is, there!

[skyedriver]

Hello, I,m back and have missed you all!

Found this old "abandoned" mini project in the back of the tumbledown shed.
OK so I abandoned it about 9 months ago to get on with the house move/projects/wedding/etc. Sorry Alison that should have been wedding first!
Anyway, finally dragged it to out to continue..."why is that wire there and what for?" "Where the hell am I up to with this?" etc. sort of questions about work that I was half way through when I had to call it a day. Can anyone assist with the pipes off a HIF carb?
There are three brass pipes on the LHS (looking from the front of the car), plus a larger one from the manifold which would go to a servo if I had one.
Think the lowest most rearward is fuel?
What are the other 2 please. I know this question has been raised before but cannot find it?
Thanks everyone.
Tony H

[miniman]

1 - FUEL INLET PORT

2 - FLOAT CHAMBER OVERFLOW/BREATER

3 - CRANKCASE BREATHER PIPE CONNECTION

4 - FUEL MIXTURE ADJUSTMENT


HTH

[skyedriver]

Thank you very much young sir.
Another job now under progress.
Tony H

[skyedriver]

Back again, been looking at the carb in the half light of the garage, there only seems to be three stub pipes....

[miniman]

skyedriver said:

Back again, been looking at the carb in the half light of the garage, there only seems to be three stub pipes....

Not sure what you mean - there's only 3 in the picture above...

[skyedriver]

Just call me stupid!

Pic on screen, car 300m away, late at night etc etc.

The outlet/inlet pipes are however in a slightly different arrangement (there is a second one at the same level as the higher angled one and one lower one) but think I have it sorted.

Where does the smaller outlet/inlet fron the top of the manifold lead to, is that a crank breather too and where do they connect to on the block. Again working from memory, (risky), is there an outlet from the timing chain case?

Sorry, hopeless aren't I, will get back in to mini mode eventually, been bit Volvo of late!

[miniman]

Only connections I can think of on the inlet manifold are:

- take off for the brake servo

- connections (one on either side of the manifold) for water pipes to heat the manifold

From memory there isn't a breather on the timing chain cover. There is one, however, on the tappet chest cover (at least, there is on a 998 engine, 1275s don't have the removable tappet chest covers)

[turbodave]

Confusion may be coming from the fact that picture is back-to-front - ie a negative image of what it should be!

[skyedriver]

miniman said:

Only connections I can think of on the inlet manifold are: - take off for the brake servo - connections (one on either side of the manifold) for water pipes to heat the manifold From memory there isn't a breather on the timing chain cover. There is one, however, on the tappet chest cover (at least, there is on a 998 engine, 1275s don't have the removable tappet chest covers)

The manifold is, I believe an MG Metro one, and the pipe is vertically, out of the top, brass, a breather connection of some sort. Its not the servo or the rusted away watr inlets.
There is a breather on the timing chain cover, cylindrical about 30mm dia with a smaller pipe out of the top, again MG Metro.
There again if you read the posts last year about getting an MG metro motor...these could be for the Afganistan market only......Please don't remind me about the jammed motor saga.

[skyedriver]

turbodave said:

Confusion may be coming from the fact that picture is back-to-front - ie a negative image of what it should be!

Yes, got that one. Thanks. Overcame problem by standing with back to engine and looking through my legs.
Should have stood with back to engine and ran away.....some folks just don't learn.