Slant Six Missing

[Deemo]

To be clear: post a pic of the tag on your original carb, not the "reman".

Ouch. Yeah what I thought was an original Holley isn't an original Holley. I picked the car up at night and had flashlights to swap the tank, fuel filter and carb. And it is a reman as well. Carter. Guess I'll be junkyarding for that Holley. But here is the new reman. Carter C-591 single barrel for a 170

 

[Deemo]

Quick question though. I've read tons of posts about the distributors on these cars and there's another adjustment bolt that is set by the factory on it. When should I mess with that? I read never, I read extreme cases, I read there was no bolt on it for further adjustment. Mine has it.

A: Should I tinker with that to get the miss out even more?

Or

B: Should I just go ahead and never mention that second adjustment bolt on the distributor ever again and forget it even exists

 

[Deemo]

Never mind. You answered this question in another post that I just read through....

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I see another adjustment bolt like you said on the bottom, but to get to it,.I would need to remove the oil filter.
Or pull the distributor. Or use the correct wrench to reach that underside bolt with the distributor in place.

With the dizzy having this extra adjustment bolt on the bottom,.do I need to loosen the normal adjustment bolt and the one on the bottom to get more timing?
The one on the underside of the distributor has a longer slot than the accessible one. Loosen the underside bolt and move the hold-down plate a little to gain additional room on the accessible slot. But 5°BTDC is a fine setting, so for now you could just leave everything as-is.

 

[slantsixdan]

Deemo. Dude. I specifically said post a pic of the tag on your original carburetor -- that's the one you removed from the car in the first place -- and not the reman. You posted a pic of the tag on the reman. Bzzt! Try again, please? I'm tryna help, but ya gotta meet me halfway, man! LOL

Guess I'll be junkyarding for that Holley

Why bother? The Carter BBS is the better carb design.

. I've read tons of posts about the distributors on these cars and there's another adjustment bolt that is set by the factory on it. When should I mess with that?

Only if you cannot attain the needed timing setting with the regular hold-down bolt.

 

[Deemo]

Deemo. Dude. I specifically said post a pic of the tag on your original carburetor -- that's the one you removed from the car in the first place -- and not the reman. You posted a pic of the tag on the reman. Bzzt! Try again, please? I'm tryna help, but ya gotta meet me halfway, man! LOL



Why bother? The Carter BBS is the better carb design.



Only if you cannot attain the needed timing setting with the regular hold-down bolt.

Hahahaha!!! I'm searching for it!!! Moved since then and been dealing with medical issues. I'm going to look in my other garage tomorrow to find it. I started to rebuild it and had the parts soaking in the parts washer so just gotta go get it out of there. Ok. First thing I'll go or have the misses go get me that tag.


And I got the timing up 6% just about and miss is slight but barely noticeable.

I heard the Holley was better??? Lol. One set of posts I read was about Holley vs Carter. I've read tons of your posts Dan and been paying attention to your words of advice to other people invade I need that information someday. If you say carter is better, then carter I will run.




Not trying to waste anyone's time, three kids and after school things and the car and two doggies it's hard to fix things find things and go hunt my junk pile hahahaha. Next post I'll have the tag. Promise

 

[slantsixdan]

The Carter BBS is the better design without a couple of key shortcomings of the Holley 1920 (side-hung float, bowl gasket below liquid fuel level). But at this late date that only matters if we have the luxury of choosing either carb in equally perfect condition. Unfortunately these days we usually must take the least-worst of whatever we can get, and in that reality the better carburetor is the one in better condition that runs better, no matter which brand.