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Primer Death
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
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Location: Maine
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject: What a bad day! |
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Well, I did my carb. rebuild... it spewed gas up through the carb... the thing (kit) never did look right, and the carb had some mis-match pieces...
I called around and it was $400 for a rebuild... and $200 for an Edelbrock.
The junk yards had nothing... and it was getting late, so I called in the Cavalry... My dad called up one of his old racing buddies, and he had one, it was 1 year newer, but it worked... paid $30 for it... the guy races GM trucks so he had all kinds of shit... mostly for his racing truck... |
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88delta88
Joined: 09 Jun 2003
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 9:49 am Post subject: |
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30 bucks is ok... isnt it? As I remember from the many times I've rebuilt my carbs, there usually is a couple pieces left over that you dont use... They usually include a few extra peices for the different revisions of the same carb(maybe, I dont know why else they would).
At least thats what I've found....
But a new carb would be the way to go, especially an aftermarket one! |
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Primer Death
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
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Location: Maine
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:54 am Post subject: |
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| hell ya $30 is ok... the thing was rebuilt it was clean! even cleaner than the one I had just rebuilt!AND IT WORKS! I have some bad vibes about Edelbrock carbs...I've seen to many of them run like s**t... |
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strokercutlass
Joined: 09 Jun 2003
Posts: 379
Location: Wis
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| the Edelbrock carbs are a great carb...with a bit of tuning...its strange..some cars ya can just bolt it on and go..others need to have the primary metering rods changed to get a decent idle and midrange...but for a cheaper replacement carb, as well as ease of assembly and rebuilding, they cant be beat...if any of you have had a quadrajet apart, you know what i mean :wink: |
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Primer Death
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
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Location: Maine
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I know what he means...they're a bitch to work on...the one I got for $30...died on the trip into town. :roll: another $35 put me back in action doing studded tire burnouts! :D P.S. My bodywork is done... |
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