Does anyone manually check primary rod sizes?
or maybe more accurately I should ask:
Has anyone measured rods, to confirm sizing, and/or noticed that the stamped sizing was wrong?
I ask, because I stumbled on what I believe to be a mis-stamped rod size.
*disclaimer*
About twenty-or-so years ago, I would regularly pop open early "70" quadrajets, to harvest the "guts"... yup, that was me.
In my defense, locally these carbs were never bought - they would sit, and get crushed with the rest of the car when time came... at least at the yard I went to.
And in all my years of parts scrounging at this yard, I only came across two pre-1973 Pontiac Quadrajets (even 1973-1974 Pontiac Quadrajets were rare); a 7029268 and a 7042264...
Ok, back to the nature of my question;
This past year I grabbed while at hte Portland swap meet two "core" 1973 Pontiac carbs, one was an in-house Carter manufactured unit;
This carb had jets and neeldes with not identifiers;
Two nights ago, I went into my small stash of parts, and decided to pop open a container which had two sets of "47" rods, to measure and compare against the un-numbered rods from the Carter Quadrajet.
Long story short, the "47" rods I grabbed actually measured more around 42 - and upon closer inspection were visually thinnner than the other set of 47's;
I then proceeded to measure several other sets of rods to ensure I was measuring at the right spot, and it appeared as though I was correct - all the other sets I measured aligned with the stamped sizing EXCEPT for this one set of "47" rods...
BTW, the un-numberd pair appeared to be 43...
