Quadrajet Problem Solving > Dialing in your rebuilt Quadrajet carburetor

Quick question I'm probably overthinking

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tayto:
reman'd carbs have a metal tag screwed to them or a sticker.

Ksp3cialK:

--- Quote from: tayto on March 17, 2020, 09:48:45 PM ---reman'd carbs have a metal tag screwed to them or a sticker.

--- End quote ---

Nothing to stop a person from removing a sticker or taking a tag off.

With the carbs now 40-50 years old, finding a virgin at that age seems pretty hard.

tayto:
i guess you can try playing around with it if you haven't already. you'll probably just have to live with the drivability issues if no effort is put into locating a non-reman'd core. search the forums, you'll find the same answers and solutions to using reman'd carbs from cliff and others. good luck.

tayto:
your best course of action may be to take the carb apart and blueprint it and then post your findings here. it can then be determined if it has been "butchered" or not.

Ksp3cialK:
I decided to pull it apart and the gasket came off in one piece thankfully.

Turns out I actually have 48M rods in it instead of the 50M as I thought. Anyway, I decided to put the strongest power piston spring I have in and fired it up. It was fully seated at idle so I took it for a drive. When I stomp it, I only see green on the wideband and it just goes, no hesitation whatsoever. The tires even started spinning for a few seconds after shifting into second.

Idle numbers on the WB are pretty good and the exhaust is not rich smelling, also pulling around 20 on the vac gauge in park.
Cruise is also looking pretty good on the WB and not too lean or rich.1

I can finally try swapping some secondary rods around now that the transition to them isn't lean.

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