I’m usually a little leery of epoxy repairs on carbs. But I was wondering what your opinions were on this. The carb had a lot of corrosion inside similar to picture #1. To the point that it weakened the top part of the post for the hinge pin, and it crumbled away leaving no hole for the pin itself. So I assembled the pin in the float arm and laid it in where it’s supposed to go and epoxied the top, picture #2.
I used 5/1 Marine-Tex, not the 50/50 quick-set version. Has anyone one else used Marine-Tex for a repair submerged in gas? I put a little piece of cured epoxy in a container of gas to see what happens but not sure of the long term results. I think we talked about this before concerning gas tanks and the results/opinions varied.
I’d hate to have to scrap the carb since this is all that’s wrong with it, but I don’t want to get stuck either.
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