Topic: Carb Rebuild

[Ernest T]

These were the carbs before the rebuild.

















Two of the carbs had broken float mounts and one was very eroded.  I bead blasted all the parts and zinc plated the steel parts. I installed all new o-rings, gaskets, and float valves.  I left the original jets and needles--I'll replace them if I have running issues.















A very small cotter pin goes here, but I couldn't find one so I used this.



I have this one spring left over.  I cannot figure out where it goes.



Any ideas?

[Blackhole]

The last picture is of a spring that goes on one of the choke shafts.  The carbs look great.

Blackhole

[tomkimberly]

The remaining component looks like a hose clamp to me.

Tom

[KC3]

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The last picture is of a spring that goes on one of the choke shafts.  The carbs look great.

Blackhole

+1

[stereosilence]

Looks awesome. What did this cost? I would love to at least get mine blasted.

[Ernest T]

The last picture is of a spring that goes on one of the choke shafts.  The carbs look great.

Blackhole

That's what I thought, but all three of them are there, there isn't one on carb number 1.  Doh, I just realized where its from!  Carb number four had a broken float mount and I bought a carb body from a member here and it still had the choke installed so when I disassembled them I would have had four springs and only used 3 on reassembly!

[Ernest T]

Looks awesome. What did this cost? I would love to at least get mine blasted.

I have a blast cabinet so there wasn't any cost to blast the parts and I replated them myself too so there wasn't any cost to do that either.  Of course I had to buy the blast cabinet, compressor and plating kit in the first place.

Arrow Plating in Ft. Worth will plate 1 lb of small parts--that's the best price I've seen on zinc plating.  I'll bet they can blast or dip the parts pretty inexpensively too.  They're on the internet, their physical address is on May street in Ft. Worth.

I reused all the rusty hardware except two philips screws.  You can see the pitting on the choke lever.