Edelbrock 1406 whistling
John @ Thanks for the reply; your 2-cents is worth a lot, especially if it helps! ;) I have to say that my return spring is a bit stiff, and the throttle cable is NOT coming in on a straight-line approach--it's at a bit of an angle, so I'm sure it pulls at the linkage. I'm wondering now, as you have said, if all this has contributed to the premature failure of the shaft seals, even if they are the secondaries (but then again, I would think those stresses would only affect the primary shaft)...either way, I'll correct those 2 issues.
Hornet and Stroker @ I agree that the carb seems to be too new for this to happen...it's only about 8 months old. But, I guess like everything else in life, sometimes you get a lemon; you can plainly see that the idle picks up when I spray that shaft. Maybe it isn't the springs, as much as it's just a sudden catastrophic failure of the shaft seals.
Now that we've isolated what seems to be the culprit, I've got 2 spare 1406's I bought off of eBay for parts, so I'm thinking I'll rob Peter to pay Paul, and use those (I'm assuming these seals are o-rings)...unless I can order them separately, which I don't think Edelbrock offers (unless you buy the whole freakin' rebuilt kit...:|)
Here's the 1477 rebuild kit....can anyone tell me if those seals are in there?
I'll update as soon as I change them out....nothing ventured, nothing gained. :)
Rob
John @ Thanks for the reply; your 2-cents is worth a lot, especially if it helps! ;) I have to say that my return spring is a bit stiff, and the throttle cable is NOT coming in on a straight-line approach--it's at a bit of an angle, so I'm sure it pulls at the linkage. I'm wondering now, as you have said, if all this has contributed to the premature failure of the shaft seals, even if they are the secondaries (but then again, I would think those stresses would only affect the primary shaft)...either way, I'll correct those 2 issues.
Hornet and Stroker @ I agree that the carb seems to be too new for this to happen...it's only about 8 months old. But, I guess like everything else in life, sometimes you get a lemon; you can plainly see that the idle picks up when I spray that shaft. Maybe it isn't the springs, as much as it's just a sudden catastrophic failure of the shaft seals.
Now that we've isolated what seems to be the culprit, I've got 2 spare 1406's I bought off of eBay for parts, so I'm thinking I'll rob Peter to pay Paul, and use those (I'm assuming these seals are o-rings)...unless I can order them separately, which I don't think Edelbrock offers (unless you buy the whole freakin' rebuilt kit...:|)
Here's the 1477 rebuild kit....can anyone tell me if those seals are in there?
I'll update as soon as I change them out....nothing ventured, nothing gained. :)
Rob