Well this weekend "Saturday" was a Rusty day. I spent the entire day working on the old truck.

I also spoke to a mechanic buddy of mine and he suggested like you that I put the carberator in cleaner and let it soak for a day! I went to the local parts store and got a gallon of the magic brew and tore the carb apart in the parking lot and droped the parts in. "I have taken it apart and put it together before so I don't even pay attention to the parts. Just take it all apart and drop them in."

My mechanic buddy "Scott" also told me not to leave it in for longer than a day because it would start to eat the pot metal that the carerator is made of. The next day "Saturday" started work on the truck. I replaced all the valve seals, adjusted and overhauld the transmission linkiage and then fixed the acellerator pedal. There has been so much rigging by shade tree mechanics on this truck it is amazing.

When I took the carberator out of the paint can it was about 2pm in the afternoon. It had been soaking and riding around in my van for a little over a day. I was amazed at how effective that cleaner was. I also noticed that it had started to eat into the potmetal because if I rubbed it my fingers woud have the grey metal rubb off on them. I read the can and it said to flush with water so I rushed to the car wash and sprayed it down. I didn't want any damage and wanted to power wash it all immiediatly. Then I dried it out and sprayed it with oil. Then I put it all back together.

One thing that is different then before is when you move the acellerator pump "after assembled" you hear this sound like something is squirting inside the carberator but no gas falls out the bottom.

I am still waiting for my pushrods and lifters to come in so I don't know if it is working properly but wanted your feed back.

I would live a detailed diagram of the acellerator pump assy so I could visualize exactly the flow. My carberator does not have the screen or the check valve. It is out of a newer engine "my 56" I am sure.


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