[Public-List] Happy Holidays!! And an A4 Carb question

[George Dinwiddie]

Matthew,

On 12/10/11 10:34 AM, Matthew Hay wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> My batteries died during our last run of the season about 6 weeks ago.  So
> I was not able to run the gas out of the fuel system prior to winter
> layup.  I have a beautiful brand new Carb from MM that I installed last
> spring.  Should I remove the carb and take it apart and clean it assuming
> that the gas has already fouled it?  Or is there a way to remove it, drain
> it, and clean it without taking it apart and just hope that it has not been
> too fouled yet from sitting?  I would rather deal with this now obviously
> rather then neglecting it and having a bigger problem in the spring.

I think there's a drain plug on the bottom of the bowl.

Looking at 
http://www.moyermarine.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1320&stc=1&d=1239239016 
if you take out the "main passage plug" does the gas drain from the 
bowl?  That's the bolt seen in the lower left of 
http://www.moyermarine.com/images/fuel24.jpg

  - George

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