Biohazard
After polishing the floats so nice that my drill sergeant from '86 would have approved, I looked at the venturis inside the carb and found some casting seams and a sort of textured finish that could be smoothed-out. Its the sort of thing I would have done on my VW that I tinker with incessantly so, why not do it here?
So here's the carb going back together with shiny floats and polished barrels.
At this point, I realized that the venturi cluster really looked like crap so I took that back out and started polishing it up as well. Took a moment to snap a picture while working on the second venturi...
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So I reinstalled the carburetor, dropped in a new battery, and after much cranking to get fuel to the bowls...it started. With it running and warmed up, I got the idle and mixture screws set but the cold start settings were all wrong so I got the gauge out and adjusted all of the linkage rods and the choke thermostat.
With the engine stone cold, it fired up in what seemed like less than one revolution. I can live with that.
After polishing the floats so nice that my drill sergeant from '86 would have approved, I looked at the venturis inside the carb and found some casting seams and a sort of textured finish that could be smoothed-out. Its the sort of thing I would have done on my VW that I tinker with incessantly so, why not do it here?
So here's the carb going back together with shiny floats and polished barrels.
At this point, I realized that the venturi cluster really looked like crap so I took that back out and started polishing it up as well. Took a moment to snap a picture while working on the second venturi...
So I reinstalled the carburetor, dropped in a new battery, and after much cranking to get fuel to the bowls...it started. With it running and warmed up, I got the idle and mixture screws set but the cold start settings were all wrong so I got the gauge out and adjusted all of the linkage rods and the choke thermostat.
With the engine stone cold, it fired up in what seemed like less than one revolution. I can live with that.
