"I wanted to post "thought
"I wanted to post "thoughts" as I went through my first carb rebuild, mostly for myself as I go...but comments are definitely welcome, especially if you see that I'm doing something wrong
I hope that some of the rambling therein is useful to someone along the way, and I plan to include pictures of things as I go.
2bbl MerCarb, 1996 4.3LX Alpha One V6
July 16:
Weird things:
* all drawings of the carb show three main pieces; mine has only two though. The throttle body is not separable from the main part of the carb.
* my carb drawing shows a retainer clip, filter, and ball underneath the accelerator pump; as far as I can tell, none of that was there in my carb.
Good things:
* one of the main fuel jets was clogged badly; blowing it out with an air compressor after soaking in in SeaFoam cleared the passage.
* test soaked the carb body nuts (that were painted) in Chemtool B-12 (15 minutes), and it didn't look like any damage was done to the painted finish. This makes me feel better about soaking the entire thing; I've already soaked and washed the uppermost part of the carb (the part where the choke plate is attached)
* I haven't yet destroyed any part that is not replaced in the carb rebuild kit
Bad things:
* I can't seem to remove a little T-shaped metal retainer/spring/ball that lives underneath the secondary venturi assembly. I've been working on that for a while.
* Getting all of the gasket material off is quite a chore."
"I wanted to post "thoughts" as I went through my first carb rebuild, mostly for myself as I go...but comments are definitely welcome, especially if you see that I'm doing something wrong
2bbl MerCarb, 1996 4.3LX Alpha One V6
July 16:
Weird things:
* all drawings of the carb show three main pieces; mine has only two though. The throttle body is not separable from the main part of the carb.
* my carb drawing shows a retainer clip, filter, and ball underneath the accelerator pump; as far as I can tell, none of that was there in my carb.
Good things:
* one of the main fuel jets was clogged badly; blowing it out with an air compressor after soaking in in SeaFoam cleared the passage.
* test soaked the carb body nuts (that were painted) in Chemtool B-12 (15 minutes), and it didn't look like any damage was done to the painted finish. This makes me feel better about soaking the entire thing; I've already soaked and washed the uppermost part of the carb (the part where the choke plate is attached)
* I haven't yet destroyed any part that is not replaced in the carb rebuild kit
Bad things:
* I can't seem to remove a little T-shaped metal retainer/spring/ball that lives underneath the secondary venturi assembly. I've been working on that for a while.
* Getting all of the gasket material off is quite a chore."