Float, float on

[Propellor]

Float on float on. Do dee do dee do.

Hypothetical.

If I want to set the float height in a carburettor, using a tube up the side, a la manometer fashion, and I decide to use water instead of petrol, how far out will the reading be, due to the difference in density between petrol and water? 

[Oldtimer]

Should Imagen naff-all that makes any difference.

[Propellor]

Should Imagen naff-all that makes any difference.

Yeah, that's what I reckoned. But there will be a difference, I guess?

[Steve Lake]

use paraffin or diesel.. similar SG and won't contaminate your carb galleries

[Propellor]

use paraffin or diesel.. similar SG and won't contaminate your carb galleries

Cheers steve

Good advice.

I use petrol, but someone was suggesting to me that using water is fine. Being the skeptic I am, I thought I'd put it to the forum.

Thanks.