Can you see what is wrong in this picture? (Besides the rusty bowl!!!) This car was running when it left my hands 3 months ago. Does anyone remember the 73 Riv I bought about 4 or 5 months ago and harvested the posi unit for my convertible?:laugh: Yeah, the kid who bought it called me back and asked my advice for carb rebuilders. I mentioned John Osborne and a couple other local guys. I also mentioned that I could do it for $100 minus the core. MY MISTAKE! He agreed to my terms and I built him an 800cfm carb and gave it to him yesterday. In return, I received my money and his old core. Unbeknownst to me (is that a word?), his dad told me this: "We don't even know if this is the problem! There is gas getting to the carb, but it won't start!" I shuddered and thought to myself, "They just wasted their money and my time building a carb." I sent them on their way, with a new carb and an offer to help them get it tuned up this weekend. They have no timing light or vac gaugeou: so I assume I will be getting a call very soon. Anyway, I tore the carb down tonight and noticed there was NO gas in the fuel bowl.....bone dry.uzzled: Now, can you guess why? Keep in mind that they have been driving this car.:shock:
Water injection is a great way to prevent detonation - they must be running 14 to 1 compression! :laugh:
The needle was stuck in the seat....allowing no gas to get into the bowl. Usually when you pull the float out, the needle comes with it attached with a small hook, but the hook was also missing. I'm really not sure how it ever ran in the first place!
I think Lens on to something.That definitely was not on a motor that was just run.I have some spare carbs for parts that sat around a long time and never seen one look that bad.Something fishy here! Pat
Well, I was the owner of this car for about 2 months last Oct-Nov. and this was the carb that was on it. These guys aren't smart enough (car-wise) to swap in that manual choke onto it before I got my hands on it again. My guess is, they parked it for the winter right after they got it in Dec. And then they tried to start it a couple weeks ago. It had been having problems with backfiring, and I am guessing maybe one of the explosions popped the pin off the needle. I have seen quite a few rusty qjets, so I wasn't surprised to see rust in the bottom. This is a little more extreme than I was expecting though. Oh yeah, the car ran like complete crap. It has a homemade choke linkage going to the choke flap. It kept binding up inside causing the choke to stay closed most of the time. I was a mess, but yesterday, I found a buyer for this carb. I will be rebuilding it with good parts that are MADE for it. It should run well:TU: He's putting it on his 70 Riv to replace the crappy Edelbrock 750 he's got on it now.
