I rebuilt my carburetor on my truck after work today; it’s a stock 86 22r with stock Aisan carb. I have been having idling problems and dieseling problems so I picked up a rebuild kit for the carb at Napa. When I was disassembling the idle cut off solenoid I noticed that the o-ring that was supposed to go on it was missing so I figured this must be the cause of my problems. I went to reassemble the solenoid with the new o-ring on, per the instructions, but every time I tried to push the solenoid back in, the o-ring would roll off its placement. The Napa kit came with 4 different o-rings and none fit right, one was too small, two of them were way too big and the fourth seemed like it would be just right, hence the Goldilocks, but it was too big still. I need to know what I am doing wrong since there was no o-ring that came off of it I have nothing to compare it to, so is it my technique, the o-rings or other. Please help me this is my daily driver and I need to get it running good for its 50 mile a day commute

Thanks for your time, Kelly

 

Bump

 

Hang tight. Ill get a pic of my old one for you...just rebuild my carb.

BRB

 

Bout 8mm diameter. Mine broke but I closed the gap and measured.



About 2mm wide.



Hope that helps.

 

thanks for the reply,yes it does help so it looks like I'm off to the 0-ring store tomorrow.

 

When you install it put just a touch of grease on it. It will help it find its home as well as seat right. You should do this with almost all o-rings.