In regard to the carb holding a loose accelerator pump tube in place....NOPE....doesn't do it. I had a 67 Ghia 'bout 1971 or so, and one day while doing a little "spirited" driving, A clacking/banging noise manifested itself....so I immediately shut the engine down fearing a valve had just broke...had the car towed home. I pulled the engine out and began disassembling it. When I pulled the head from Cyl 1, the top of the piston had gouges in it as did the head, but the cylinder walls and valve seats were ok... I concluded that something small had been swallowed into the engine, and then was blown out of the exhaust....as I checked the intake system I looked into the carb...lo and behold no accelerator pump tube!! Put a new tube in, the head back on, etc...etc...I dodged the "bullet"! Ric
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