A few years ago, after I rebuilt my carb and ran it for awhile I saw a residue building up in the float bowl. I heard here that it could be because of the alcohol in gas reacting with metal in the float body. Presumably,the carb body was coated at the factory but this coating has long since worn or eaten away.On this presumption,I started running only alcohol free gas in my engine.
Recently I had no alcohol free gas so I filled it up with some 87 octane with methanol 10 % from the local gas station and my truck ran better. It has more pep.The alcohol free stuff is higher octane and generally used for aircraft engines.I want to run regular gas in this truck.
I don't want to keep cleaning this carburetor so I'm thinking of replacing it with another newer carb.
What I have now is a rochester one barrel with manual choke. What carb will fill my needs?---Jack
