Friday, April 27, 2012

Carbs

The '67 was a little hard to get started the last time I took it out, so I poked around a bit and found that the choke lever was a little sticky.  A little carb cleaner loosened it up.  The carb was rebuilt a long time ago and works fine.  But when I was messing with it a few weeks ago I noticed it is starting to leak just a bit around the accelerator pump and the gaskets so I decided to clean it up.  Not a full blown rebuild but new pump, new gaskets, general cleaning.   



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2 comments:

wanderinglion said...

Is that a Rochester Quadra-jet? Do you recall too that gasoline smelled better then?

Tom said...

Yep, rochester Q-jet. Gas definitely smelled different back in the 70's. But its funny you mentioned that because I noted to myself how my garage smelled 'right' as I was doing this. combination of gas, engine cleaner, carb cleaner, and simple green.