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FM wanted these photos to be included with his question. Here they are.

Knotted rope on each side!! A good use for ratty old boat mooring lines too short to use but too long to discard.

This may seem dumb, but my experience is that sometimes on reassembling a carb and starting the fuel flow, the float sticks down and open. Maybe it drags on the bowl side or something. If the carb leaks on startup like this, I rap the bowl sharply with the wooden handle of a screwdriver. Every...

Take a close look @ the #s on the miles driven !!

Yes it is the early one, and it looks very worn on the driving teeth & I would bet the fly wheel is also worn to bad to use..

Yes, Both the Jarvis & the Stant Co. were on the 1928/29s..Including the Quails..

And if it was a Zenith 3 ??

Rusty, Yes, they that is an original one from Ford..

Very nice, Some one, Some where, Will know why & when this was made..

John, You are talking about the Re-Pop ones made by Greenleaf ? (Wood) in Calif.& they were marked as such.. They had the knurling on them.. The Original Stanco did not have any knurling as shown in Barbs picture.. The Jarvis 28/29 did have a knurling ring on it, but is quite the different piece...

Steve, Notice where the top pin in the back is on the Re-Pop, on the left side.. All Originals come in from the right side looking @ the head to the back of the bird..

No, It is not..

None of the Carbs shown in Tincups pictures have the cast upper support under the mounting bolt hole in the one facing the rear of car as shown in Joops picture of the Zenith 3.. Both types of the 3s had that feature.

Sorry, That is not a Zenith 3 Top..

On the set of four, it looks like the inside copper washer or bushing is not installed.. If is was it would raise it up..