NichiBlembom

yea you're right. it's just those worries that keep me up at night

I was tempted as well and I did it. I tried to just epoxy the plug itself so that it could still have the function of the frostplug, but I doubt that it will hold until it gets cold again! I will see As I said. Removing the Inlet Manifold requires removing the Exhaust Manifold to renew the gasket. If the studs on these strip (and I have seen those strip on newer cars already), its Cylinderhead reworking time. Thanks everybody and especially R_Blue for your input! I ordered a new plug already and will try and bang the old one out of there with the manifold attached. Can't wait to find out what kind of problems that will cause Thanks for the positivity! Hope to read more from your Forman project aswell!

Hi again! My Forman is taking the **** again (this time literally). Fixed a couple of things. First the carburettor, vacuum leaks, then the brakes, fuel lines, fuel pump, oil pan, then carb again because of insane amounts of dirt in the fuel tank. Now when I thought that I am finally good to take it for a longer trip it started peeing lots of coolant from the intake manifold. On the pictures you can see from where it comes. Unfortunately its not a hose, but the metal part of the manifold (I guess it is a frostplug?) is heavily corroded, has hole and leaks brown rusty and smelly coolant. The coolant looked alright to me a couple of weeks ago, I had it parked because I didn't have time, now it looks like this, which I find rather strange. . Anybody here who has had this same problem? Do you think I could somehow fix it with some sort of gasket glue, or silicon? Changing the manifold is not an option for me at this point, since the studs look pretty rusty and probably will strip when I try to replace the gasket, which seals intake and exhaust manifold. Right now I would like roll it in a ditch and get something air cooled rather than rework the head. Hope to read something positive from you guys Greetings, an enthusiast thats not being treated well by his Forman

Quick update! I received the accelerator pump yesterday evening, so I couldn't wait any longer, went to the car - took out the carburettor, exchanged enrichment valve and accelerator pump with all the seals (when I saw them, I understood what you meant when you said that they are crispy haha), put it back together with the new baseplate. I let the liquid seal dry overnight. This morning I went down and fired it up - it cranked for like 30 seconds and after that it fired up und purred like a cat again! no weird shaking, no black smoke! I ordered oil, filters and new sparkplugs online (it wasn't available at the local carshops), so hopefully I will be able to pick it up and do a service on monday and then take it for a spin and see if it stays healthy after reaching operating temperature! Thanks so much for the help RicardoM!

Do you think that some liquid gasket added on top of the rubber could be harmful? If not, I could add some, to be even more sure that it seals? I found a spare enrichment valve in a box of spareparts i got with the car. It is not brand new, but it looks definitely better than the one thats installed right now. So I will exchange it tomorrow with the baseplate. Regarding the accelerator pump diaphragm: there are no Parts available right now. I had to order the whole thing. Still waiting for it, until then I will just hope that it is not faulty and will just work. Thanks for the help so far! I will let you know, once I get some results

haha alright, looks like we're not that different after all!

Hi RicardoM! Thanks for the quick reply! Thats a great tip, I will check everything for flatness! I ordered the rubber seal from a Skoda geniune parts wholesale. Is there a risk of it being warped? How could I fix it if it is? I am somehow trying to avoid stripping it down myself. Even though I rebuilt carbs for mopeds, I think that this one is an especially complicated one and I think this is beyond my mechanical skills to get it back together and running. Thats why I asked if the seal could be the issue, so I can try myself and if it doesnt bring the solution find a machine shop or a more skilled mechanik who could rework the carb for me and ideally give me an introduction in what to take care of, when doing so. Thanks for the help so far! I want to replace all fuel lines in the engine bay, just to be sure and have ordered a new pump aswell (it costs almost the same as the diaphragm)

Hi everybody! I am new to the world of Skoda and cars with carburettors, so I hope that some of you might be able to give me some tips where to look for possible problems on my Forman. I bought the car last week off a very nice old man in a village. Tested it for 15 minutes and it ran great. It has some rusty patches, but the substance on the "important" parts looks good. Also has a almost new MOT. I read a lot about the 1.3 engine up front (also here in the forum) so that I know what to look out for. The coolant looked brownish, but there was no mayo in it and the oil looked alright. A little mayo on the Oil filler (don't know how you call it in english) but the guy only drove it to work for 10 km a day, so that seemed legit. So I bought it and drove it home (around 60 km), checked oil and coolant on the way, everything was working fine. When i arrived at home, I noticed that it the idle was really rough. The car was jumpig a bit from it. On the next day I took another drive, around 20 km, and then the car started stalling when stopping on lights. Back home i noticed black smoke from the exhaust and a biting smell of fuel also in the car. I looked around and noticed that there was fuel leaking on the gasket between inlet manifold and carb. I checked the oil and noticed that it looked very thin, also there was more oil on the dip than before. So my theory is that it was just flooding everytime when it stalled and the fuel just ran into the oil. So my question is: Can a leak in the gasket between carb and inlet (it would be vacuum leak right?) cause the engine or carb to flood? I ordered the gasket already (spare parts are easy and cheap here in the czech republic) but now I am a bit afraid that it could be the carb itself making troubles! I was hoping to find some answers here, because it looks like some of you guys know your ways around this engine :) Also please shoot all your thoughts, I am eager to learn about it, i was just hoping to not have a problem with the most complicated part of the car (the carb) after not even a week :D Thanks in advance!