1971 Plymouth Valiant "Granny Smith"
Now to catch everyone up to speed. Winter was cold and snowy, and the rebuilt BBD was nothing but problems. Come to find out, the BBD was about 10 years older than the car!
The poor man's six pack. The BBD that was on the car is in the far back. Knowing it was bad, I bought the one in front of it off eBay, knowing it would need to be rebuilt. However, once I opened it up, I found out it was missing a bunch of parts and would barely even be considered a parts carb. So back I went to searching, and fortunately a buddy of mine in Georgia had a 1973 Satellite parts car with a BBD, so I took a second gamble on that.
A bit dirty, but seemingly complete and free moving.
Deja vu x3. This is before the cleaning...
...and after! I am still shocked by how well Berryman's Carb-Dip works. I only soaked the parts for about an hour or so, then ran some brushes and carb cleaner through the orifices.
End result- looks brand new! But how will she run?
Back on the engine! I did have a new pre-bent fuel line from the pump up but unfortunately the bends were not correct and didn't work.
It runs! A snort of starting fluid down the throat and it fired right up! Some very light fiddling with the mixture screws (2.5 turns out from seated) and the idle, and it comes to light on the first crank!
Now to catch everyone up to speed. Winter was cold and snowy, and the rebuilt BBD was nothing but problems. Come to find out, the BBD was about 10 years older than the car!
The poor man's six pack. The BBD that was on the car is in the far back. Knowing it was bad, I bought the one in front of it off eBay, knowing it would need to be rebuilt. However, once I opened it up, I found out it was missing a bunch of parts and would barely even be considered a parts carb. So back I went to searching, and fortunately a buddy of mine in Georgia had a 1973 Satellite parts car with a BBD, so I took a second gamble on that.
A bit dirty, but seemingly complete and free moving.
Deja vu x3. This is before the cleaning...
...and after! I am still shocked by how well Berryman's Carb-Dip works. I only soaked the parts for about an hour or so, then ran some brushes and carb cleaner through the orifices.
End result- looks brand new! But how will she run?
Back on the engine! I did have a new pre-bent fuel line from the pump up but unfortunately the bends were not correct and didn't work.
It runs! A snort of starting fluid down the throat and it fired right up! Some very light fiddling with the mixture screws (2.5 turns out from seated) and the idle, and it comes to light on the first crank!