"Plus most people do not use the cigarette trick any longer which severely limits their rebuilding success!
"
Youth and stupidity do go hand in hand. I quit the smoke trick when I quit smoking. I figured if I used the trick long enough I wouldn't be able to blow the smoke without hacking all over the carb
. That would compromise the rebuild.
"In all seriousness,"
OK, I confess, I was just pulling your chain a bit
but, the other reason for the reply was to not allow fear to hold back a budding rebuilder. Who knows, he might wind up giving Vintage a run for their money.
"noted carb. rebuilders will tell you that the bases on the majority of these carbs. have warped over time due to the nature of the material and they leak vacuum."
You got to remember when I was a kid 94s were still in production and the only thing considered warped was me. However, these days it is good to note that the carb bases have been through tough times and will require planing with a good file among many other things.
"Also corrosion from moisture and varnish from dried gasoline plug passages making them still flow air however not send the correct signal."
Absolutely, not to mention worn out shafts and bases. I mean, I can't count the times I'd seen thottles depressed rapid fire style
for God knows how long trying to get the car started rather than just fixing the problem. Of course, back then, at 23 cents per gallon who cared.
"I have seen it over and over where someone will brag how they rebuilt their carburetor(s) with success yet they only thought they had done a good job until ones from Jobe/Faltermeier/et al were installed and they could experience the difference that the machine work, the flow work, and the calibration does to these carbs."
Ah, once again, things have come a long way since then. I used Jere Jobes forth method for power valve selection, since I don't happen to have a portable exhaust gas analyzer in my back pocket, and I got very lucky. I could have gone with the "vacuum method" or the "plug 'n play/seat of the pants method" but I used the "best guess" or WAG and nailed it. Minimal skill, maximum luck. As you mentioned before, "the test of time" will tell but so far, so good.
