Edelbrock 1405 carb. running way too rich

73 Demon340

C130CHIEF is right! My Edelbrock out of the box had float levels so far off that besides running rich, when I shut the car off the fuel would run over the venturi's and flood into the intake making startup up pain in the you know what. Yeah you'd think that you wouldn't be pulling the top off of a brand new carb, but hey who knows if the guy on the assembly line really cares about exact measurements or not or maybe he's got a wife or girlfriend that's giving him to much to think about when he's at work. Who knows, but do like Chief says and check the floats.