Thread: A little help required

Develop the skills, it's dead easy. Purchase a pair of known working carbies as spares. To balance carbies you either buy an old fashioned carb balancer off ebay or use your ears and hands. At idle you just unscrew the damper pistons and push them in one side at a time and see how much the idle drops by.

The Holley is likely to be just as much of a disappointment as the twins, they aren't magically better without correct setup.

I would not change the carbies other than to buy new or rebuilt replacements. There is a tool available - no doubt on ebay, to balance same. It can be done by ear however I preferred the balancer tool. Alas, I no longer have one, I included it when I sold the vehicle

Thanks Gents,
Is anyone able to advise of or if there is different Carbs, I guess I need to know the simple ways to identify what I have so I can get a local there to inspect for me, and then order a set prior to my next visit to the old girl.

yes as others have said - stay with the originals.

Initially get two new diaphrams, take the tops off the carbs (4 screws each) put them in (5 minutes work). Fill the dash pots with ATF or sewing machine oil and ensure all the linkages are connected and adjusted about right (choke is on one carby only) - fire her up - a little squirt of start ya bastard might help (a few gentle taps with a rubber mallet may be needed to loosen things up inside) and tune by ear. If there is fuel coming out the bottom of a carb unscrew the whole housing at the bottom of the carby and replace the O ring (not half the fitting but note where everything is in case you move the jet).

Ensure timing is between 3 and 9 degrees BTDC - 9 is better and drive it onto your trailer or on the ferry.

Those settings should see the engine run OK until you can do a proper tune-up.

I'm going to,back everyone else here and say NO to a Holley as a replacement. When the original carbs are tuned properly they make the engine run very sweetly. Even with the best tune on a Holley, it won't run as well.

If you aren't confident to do it, or learn how to do it, ring around and find someone who can. I will be worth it.

Just re read your last post - if you need help ID ing the carbs, take a pic of them and post it up here.

Thanks guys, you have inspired me to keep the girl orginal as she should be. I know there is some of a carbie kit siting in the back, hopefully the previous owner just found it to hard and gave in. Working on the worse case, and also the quickest if I need to get it going, any suggestions where I can pick up some reconditioned carbs, so I could just to a quick exchange, then rekit my olds as spares.

what where the carby issues the previous owner had ?????