Tbi - 350

[SeventyOne]

Originally Posted by Ryanz

In the meantime, the holley, when not sticking, has been perfect. We sprayed some high potent cleaner in it today while revving to hopefully help free it up. It's just always ran rich and stinks badly of raw fuel in my garage. The choke is working fine.

The fuel smell in the garage is likely not the carburetor. If it's running rich, tune it so its right. You get what you give with a carb. Put some time into figuring it out.

Also not sure how spraying cleaner at the carb while revving will do much for the floats.

If I were you here's what I would do. Get yourself a AFR gauge. If you end up going EFI down the road you'll need the 02 bung/sensor in your exhaust anyways. In the meantime you can get some actual readings to see how rich you are. The sticking float still needs to be dealt with though.

Lastly make sure your ignition is 100% solid before tinkering with the carb.