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Old 12-11-2024, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Sadler View Post
Thanks Patrick. Will order a rebuild kit and watch the U-Tube Ed sent me.

Being a snowbird, I now have a project!
What you'll find is that 98% of the time the problem is: 1) Dirt; 2) Leaks; 3) The primary butterfly being outside the transfer slot; 4) Clogged Air Bleeds; 4) Accelerator Pump out of adjustment; 5) Secondaries out of adjustment or incorrect spring in a vacuum secondary.

In college I used to charge ten to twenty bucks to clean and adjust your carb. All I did was squirt carb cleaner down the air bleeds, lubricate the linkage with WD40 and then adjust the fuel/air mixture screws and check to make sure the choke worked. That generally resulted in "wow, the car has never run this well before" type reviews.
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