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Friday, December 16, 2011

Carburetor Rebuild...Sounds Hard...Looks Hard...Actually Pretty Easy...

Well, rebuilding of the motor continues.  I finally purchased a carburetor rebuild kit, mostly for the gaskets to remount it to the manifold, but also to replace a few of the parts.  So I watched a few videos online and was a bit intimidated by all the small parts.  In reality, I only used a few of them.  For the most part the difficulty is in making sure all the linkages can go back together and that takes some work.  But for the most part its just a big puzzle and having lots of pictures and diagrams helps.  After some cleaning, it looks much better, and all the parts went back in...so its a matter of it working when I go to start it up when I'm to that point...whenever that will be!  Other recent work includes oil filter and spark plugs.  Next up...fuel pump and distributor...and then I'll pretty much be finished with the motor.  Progress!