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Carter Carburetor Repair - Part2
Topic: Mechanical   Posted:2004-10-17
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At the top of the picture you can see the accelerator cable. To the left of that is the heat tube for the choke. Just below the intake, notice the bolt next to the spark plug?



It turns out that the bolt pokes in to the bottom of the carburetor the way somebody previous had installed it. Here is a picture of a very pretty Rambler flathead similar to ours. It looks to me like maybe the float bowl is different, but that doesn't make sense, since the model number is identical:



Here is where the bolt pokes in to the carburetor:



The bowl on the new carburetor looks the same, but it doesn't have the indentation:



I banged the bottom of the float bowl in further so the bolt wouldn't rest on the bottom. I'll get a spacer, or a different float bowl, or perhaps the bolt is wrong, but for now this works:



It is possible to do this without interfering with the float:



There are 5 parts to this article:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5




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