Carb help

[4EyedTurd]

Hello guys, looking for some carb help. I'm working on a 74 maverick with a 200 and someone tried to rebuild the carb but it was leaking from the front so I pulled it apart and I'm not sure if I got it back together right. Its not squirting when I hit the throttle. I know when I had the top of the carb off with gas in it and pulled the thottle fuel went from the bowl up to the top. From there I'm not sure... I believe the carb is a carter 1v, it says autolite by carter or vise versa on the side of it.

I'm stumped and its fix this one or see if a 1bbl from a 79 fairmont with a 200 will work.

 

[kurtis]

If you put everything back together like it came apart, the fuel float may be hung not letting fuel through to the jet. Pull the top back off and blow through the fuel inlet while moving the float up and down at the very top it should block all flow in the rebuild inst. there should also be a set angle of that float measured bya small ruler angle gauge in the kit. Those carter carbs are a pretty simple set up. Just follow the flow of fuel from the inlet to the jet. Also something to look at is the small fuel filter usually screwed into the carb. before the main fuel line. Remove and blow through it to see if you have any blockage there. Hopefully this might help a little?

 

[4EyedTurd]

Kurtis, the problem is the previous person that pulled the carb apart had no previous experience with carbs. I put a new fuel filter on it already. The only part I'm not sure about is the pump check needle, ball check retainer,weight, and the pump ball check discharge. When I filled the bowl and worked the pump I got gas up to that part but I doubt I got all the right parts in the right order.

 

[kurtis]

Well Ive looked everywhere in my shop for my extra 1bl but it grew legs and walked away. i planned to pull it down and maybe snap a few pics or something. Anyways do a search in google about the parts listing for your carb. It will give you a breakdown of the carb in a parts listing. You might be able to refrence the pics. If you run into a little money a brand new well rebuilt carb is i think 90 dollars at autozone, thats a simple fix. Im sorry i couldnt help a little more. On the side of the carb you will have a stock number of some kind casted not painted try to refrecnce this stock number to.

 

[4EyedTurd]

Thanks kurtis, I finally got to mess with it again and it will squirt when you hit the gas pedal but its a small amount so you have to hit it a few times before it will actually run.

 

[ludwig]

Did you do a soak and clean on all that stuff? If that engine sat for a while before you got it with modern gas in the tank, you probably have some gum or varnish in the pump or other small passages. I'm sure you know what you are doing with the rebuild, but you really have to get the orifices, nozzles and passages cleaned out, like with a can of compressed air that they sell at a computer or office supply store.

If it is the accelerator pump that is better now but not all there, take it back out and run some solvent through it and work it for a while to make sure is free of debris. I had an accelerator pump problem once that only showed up when the engine got hot. There was some casting flash on the rod and when the holes swelled (just a leeeetle bit) from the heat, it would hang up and not work properly. Emery paper did the trick. You never know.

 

[4EyedTurd]

I got it running after the duraspark box went out. I went ahead and let it idle to burn up the old gas since it has been sitting since atleast 2002. I played with the idle mixture screw trying to get rid of a mean hesitation when you give it anymore than half throttle but I had no luck no matter how far out or in I went. It would either pop pretty good out of the carb when you nailed the gas off idle or die. I'll try some fresh gas and a can of b12 then pull the carb back off and blow it out.

The car has sat a long time and I did let the carb parts soak in a can of carb cleaner for a few days. I used a new pump diaphram.