62Ranchero200
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Greetings Ford Six Fans,
This is in a '62 Falcon Ranchero.
I have replaced my mechanical fuel pump, and now on to the NEXT problem - fuel dripping from the underside of the carb on the fuel bowl side. :roll:
It's a Holley 2300 (Part # 4412-S), mounted with the throttle shaft parallel to the crank/camshaft, but mounted with the fuel bowl to the outside.
Mounted on the engine, the fuel bowl sits quite close to the shock tower, in fact so close that I can't pull the rear lower fuel bowl bolt all the way out without hitting the shock tower.
Between the intake manifold, headers, shock tower, lines and wires, it's almost impossible to tell where the fuel drip is coming from with the carb mounted on the engine, even from underneath the car or with a mirror.
I pulled the carb off the engine, and it's sitting on a short piece of 2" X 8", with the throttle lever off one side of the 2 X 8 so that the carb sits flat, the fuel bowl side of the carb hanging off of the 2 X 8 so that I can look for leaks, and the entire 2 X 8 right at the edge of my workbench so that any gas that drips out falls all the way to the floor.
My issue is, with the carb off of the engine, how do I get gas into the bowl? So far, I've thought of the following:
* Buy an electric fuel pump to continuously pressurize the fuel bowl using the inlet fitting - this would probably be the best way, but I don't have a small tank or gas can with an opening in the bottom to connect to an electric fuel pump
* Use a turkey baster to squirt gas into the site plug hole (this is about a 1/4" hole)
* Use a flexible straw to put gas into the vent (3/16") or site plug hole (put the straw down into a tall, narrow bottle full of gas, put my finger over the top of the straw, pull the straw out of the gas, put it over the carb vent or site plug hole, then take my finger away from the straw)
If I can't figure out exactly what is leaking, I may buy another bowl ($50 at Summit Racing).
Thanks
Bob
This is in a '62 Falcon Ranchero.
I have replaced my mechanical fuel pump, and now on to the NEXT problem - fuel dripping from the underside of the carb on the fuel bowl side. :roll:
It's a Holley 2300 (Part # 4412-S), mounted with the throttle shaft parallel to the crank/camshaft, but mounted with the fuel bowl to the outside.
Mounted on the engine, the fuel bowl sits quite close to the shock tower, in fact so close that I can't pull the rear lower fuel bowl bolt all the way out without hitting the shock tower.
Between the intake manifold, headers, shock tower, lines and wires, it's almost impossible to tell where the fuel drip is coming from with the carb mounted on the engine, even from underneath the car or with a mirror.
I pulled the carb off the engine, and it's sitting on a short piece of 2" X 8", with the throttle lever off one side of the 2 X 8 so that the carb sits flat, the fuel bowl side of the carb hanging off of the 2 X 8 so that I can look for leaks, and the entire 2 X 8 right at the edge of my workbench so that any gas that drips out falls all the way to the floor.
My issue is, with the carb off of the engine, how do I get gas into the bowl? So far, I've thought of the following:
* Buy an electric fuel pump to continuously pressurize the fuel bowl using the inlet fitting - this would probably be the best way, but I don't have a small tank or gas can with an opening in the bottom to connect to an electric fuel pump
* Use a turkey baster to squirt gas into the site plug hole (this is about a 1/4" hole)
* Use a flexible straw to put gas into the vent (3/16") or site plug hole (put the straw down into a tall, narrow bottle full of gas, put my finger over the top of the straw, pull the straw out of the gas, put it over the carb vent or site plug hole, then take my finger away from the straw)
If I can't figure out exactly what is leaking, I may buy another bowl ($50 at Summit Racing).
Thanks
Bob