My new ride, almost
Been busy driving the car since I got it registered, and haven't posted any updates. I was having typical Carter fuel boiling issues, so I decided to pull the carb, and look what I found. I knew it was a thermoquad manifold with an adapter to a square bore carb, but I didn't expect it to be installed upside down. Neither gasket had more than an eighth of an inch of contact. Anyway, I removed the adapter entirely and added a quarter inch thermoquad fiber gasket and two square bore gaskets sandwiching a four hole aluminum plate. I also adjusted the kickdown linkage and it shifts much better now, and no heat soak to speak of. I will change the intake and carb over the winter, but I will have to redo the throttle and kickdown linkage, as someone just bent the two barrel linkage to fit.
Been busy driving the car since I got it registered, and haven't posted any updates. I was having typical Carter fuel boiling issues, so I decided to pull the carb, and look what I found. I knew it was a thermoquad manifold with an adapter to a square bore carb, but I didn't expect it to be installed upside down. Neither gasket had more than an eighth of an inch of contact. Anyway, I removed the adapter entirely and added a quarter inch thermoquad fiber gasket and two square bore gaskets sandwiching a four hole aluminum plate. I also adjusted the kickdown linkage and it shifts much better now, and no heat soak to speak of. I will change the intake and carb over the winter, but I will have to redo the throttle and kickdown linkage, as someone just bent the two barrel linkage to fit.
