Restorations

After my earlier QuadraJet episode, I still had the hard start issue with a few more problems to boot. Seems that one of the little arms on the passenger side of the carb was mispositioned and jammed the secondaries shut. Not only that, but I was still having the hard start problem. I tried a ton of things to no avail so I decided to pull the distributor and the carb (the last two things I messed around with) for a thorough check.

While I was in the distributor, I removed and cleaned everything, installing new springs and bushings for the mechanical advance.  On reassembly, I noticed that the bracket for the vacuum advance dashpot was bent on the distributor so I replaced that before dropping it back in.

I went through everything on the carb all over again. I found that the float valve had fallen off of the float, but was still in its proper location so it would have still worked. I took everything else apart and inspected it all over again. When I reinstalled the fuel inlet seat into the carb, I noticed that I was able to thread it down in deeper this time. Looking at it more closely, the small seal that had come in the kit had not properly fell down into the bore that it was supposed to go into and was not properly sealing off the fuel inlet when the float commanded. This allowed the fuel bowl to over flow basically all of the time. It was not a gusher, but just enough to flood the engine after it would sit for a little bit.

Now, it idles great, runs like a raped ape, and best of all, starts beautifully when hot!!