In reply to 914Driver :
The car looks amazing! And oh, it sounds great too. You must be grinning from ear to ear right about now 😊
In reply to 914Driver :
The car looks amazing! And oh, it sounds great too. You must be grinning from ear to ear right about now 😊
New carb did the trick. It did (engine did) 65 mph comfortably, I was all over the bus wheel. Slowed to 60 and handles much smoother. It did seem to run out of air at high RPM, I'm guessing float adjustment. Also it starts hard, floods easily so I removed the air filter and put a clothes pin holding the choke open; all was well after that.
Took the wife, son and grand kid to the Saratoga Auto Museum, then to the Saratoga National Cemetery to visit wife's parents. Pics in another thread.
But this is today's. Quite happy that the car is happy. 1st pic, in the wild. Museum, Cemetery, then to the Speckled Pig for some GREAT pizza and craft beers.
Nice!
Check your tire pressures.
Those old-style bias ply tires are really sensitive to having the correct pressure in them. You might find that it tracks a lot better at 40 psi.
Did you just bolt the carburetor on and go? Or did you set everything up as per the manual? You may have to fiddle with the choke and other settings.
Is that "brand new" carburetor one of the offshore "one size fits all" reproductions that are coming out now?
Looks brand new, it's real pretty but it could be a Reman from Kanter. I did a basic rebuild on the stock carb, gaskets etc., but something was going on with the accelerator pump; perhaps scratches in the bore causing loss of ooomph.
In reply to 914Driver :
I've found that sometimes the pump doesn't seal in the bore well, or the check ball doesn't seat properly, letting the fuel push back to the bowl.
If it's got a leather pump washer, soak it in ATF while you're assembling the carburetor. They're supposed to be oiled before they go in but nobody tells you that.
I also put some ATF on all the gaskets and rub it in with my fingers until the gasket is saturated. This does two things. It swells the gaskets a little bit so they seal better when the screws are tightened. It keeps the gaskets from sticking so if you have to go back in and correct something, the gasket won't tear.
When you put the check ball in, take a small punch and give it a tap to make sure the seat and the ball fit together well.
When I put the pump in, I fill the bowl with fuel and work the pump by hand to be sure everything is sealing and working properly. If it doesn't shoot fuel, you can go through the system and figure out where the problem is.
I also like to turn the carburetor upside-down and put a vacuum pump on the fuel inlet. If you can pull vacuum on the needle and seat, you know it's sealing well and you shouldn't have a flooding problem.
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