carb rebuilding
 

reassembly phase of rebuilding my qjet, and i finally ran into a problem. midway thru reassembly, i realized that the fuel discharge ball never came out. upon inspection as to why, its because there is a little ring of rust holding the bastard in!

what on earth do i do to get it out??

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compressed air :)

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ohhhhhhhhhhhh yeah, i guess that makes sense. i guess ill take it with me to work tomorrow, and stop off at the goodyear and see if the fellas there might blow it out for me.

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Little hit of wd 40, let it sit and blow it out with air. Keep your eyes on that little ball though, through safety goggles that is.

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a needle held with needle nose plyers to scrape the rust away after letting it set overnight with wd40

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well that ball blew right out on the first shot! whew! i was getting a little worried that i was going to be buying a new carb over a tiny rusted metal ball!

hopefully today ill have time to finish the reassembly, and try it out on the truck!

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SHE RUNS!!!!

i just put the carb back on, and she fired up on the first crank!!! im astounded that i rebuild a qjet on my first try, but i feel like ive passed a litmus test, and i DO have what it takes to restore a vehicle!

now i just need to figure out how to smooth her out, and ill be able to drive around a bit. i had some trouble with the secondaries intake flaps, but i found a carb shop about 3 miles from my apt, and they had a ton of qjets laying around. they wernt really in the spare parts business, but i talked the guy out of a spring-return for the secondaries, for $5 (i needed it, and i wanted to make sure i left with it!).

i actually had it on and running earlier today, but with the secondaries stuck open. it would fire, but would only run wide open and then die when i let off. now, it starts and almost idles, but then dies. i need to so some reading on what to do with the mixtures, and then im set!

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:ele: :ennyd: :two: :five: :ennyd: :ele: :ele: :ennyd: :two:

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plus check the play in the throttle shafts........they are vacumm leaks when they are worn

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Nice, it definitely feels good to make some headway.

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thats EXACTLY the way i feel right now!! i celebrated by running down to the autoparts store and picking up a chrome 14" air cleaner :)

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just had me another parking lot celebration, because i got her tuned close enough to roll without dying!!!