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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, David Krucas wrote:
> Back to the present. A couple things you might want to do that won't
> be too expensive would be to rebuild the carb and check the timing. A
> carb kit has new gaskets and a new needle valve and seat, plus you get
> to check the condition of your float and see how much gunk is in the
> bottom of the float bowl. If any, put in an inline fuel filter between
> the tank and the fuel pump. Altitude doesn't have much to do with it.
> Mine used to start in the thin air of Lakewood in below zero weather
> every day just fine. Good luck, and keep us posted.
This is actually getting interesting. I don't have any tools to work on
the timing, so I took my truck into a shop to get the timing checked.
They claim to have not touched the carburetor beyond taking off the air
cleaner and looking down the throat, but somehow the float levels have
been set way too high (there's fuel squirting out of my gaskets when I
pump the gas) since I dropped the truck off at the shop. So it looks like
I will be getting a carb kit (hopefully NAPA has one in stock or nearby)
and rebuilding the carb after all.
My shop manual shows the float level being checked with a float level
gauge; do I actually need one of these, or is the carb kit pretty much all
I'll need?
Thanks,
Tim Lloyd, omaha@tmbg.org
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