After a couple weeks of cleaning, rebuilding, and sitting on these carburetors I decided to take them out to the car and give them a shot. I was optimistic – they were clean inside and out with fresh rubber parts and clean metal. I even cleaned the damn screws. I obsessed a little. I drove [...]
I realized that I don’t think I’d uploaded any photos of the whole car. Here’s me checking it out when dad and I picked it up:
I finished cleaning the rear carburetor and am about 3/4 done with the front. They both need gaskets, but it looks like the needle and jet are clean now and the float bowls look to be in good shape too. The front carburetor had a ripped diaphragm (as you can see below) – pretty gnarly! [...]
