Resurrected Junk

People here and on slantsix.org have griped about re-built carbs from mass marketers like AutoZone and O'Reilly's. Besides finding out that the jet was wrong, I found out that the float had been installed without using a circlip on the hinge pin.

I discovered this when I was working on the 4 bbl last night. The float on it was secured with a clip. I didn't remember seeing a clip on the 1 bbl. Open up the float bowl on the 1920 this afternoon and voila a groove in the float hinge pin without a circlip. Missing this tiny little clip, the float would float off the end of pin preventing the float arm from shutting off the supply of fuel to the bowl. Thus, I was pushing fuel out of the bowl vent.

Now it's fixed. I can drive the car once again while I work out the details on the 4 bbl linkage mount. The bummer of the 1920 Holley business is that I bought a $20 overhaul kit from which I used only the fuel bowl gasket and a circlip. No one locally sells just those two parts. Ya gotta buya kit.

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I recall a teacher telling me back when I was doing wheelies on my Schwinn that you either swear by or swear at Chrysler products. The man was a prophet, because I have done both. (And will probably continue to do so.)