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Old 03-19-2016, 04:15 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ascendedmind View Post
Now if you are going to repair/replace base gasket this would require removing from the car. What I'm I misunderstanding?
The carb is built as two halves, the top half has most of the vacuum hoses and is a pain to remove, the bottom half has the float bowl, jets and is what mostly gets rebuilt, if you want to completely remove the top half and reinstall it for your first time set aside at least 4 hours otherwise it's about 4 to 6 screws to remove the top half, flop it aside leaving everything you can still connected, should take ten minutes.
At this point if the base gasket wasn't an issue you'd rebuild the lower half while it's on the car, the accelerator pump is the only part that's hard to reach, but your base gask leaks so pull the bottom half the carb off, 3 to 5 minutes.

Check and clean, replace jets and gaskets, 20 minutes.

Read the repair book again, ten minutes.

Read the book again, 5 minutes.

Put it back together, 15 minutes.

Wash the gas smell out of your hands and change clothes, 20 minutes.

If you've done it before it might take half as long.
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