{"id":1538,"date":"2025-06-01T19:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T23:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:00:37","slug":"carburetor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/carburetor\/","title":{"rendered":"Carburetor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The engine originally had computer controlled fuel injection.  The PO replaced this with an Edelbrock intake, and an AVS2 carburetor.  By his description, he put fuel in the tank about 5 years ago, and got the engine started.  I&#8217;m pretty sure that the carb and intake was brand new at that time, along with the fuel tank, fuel pump, and the fuel lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, it looks like the fuel sat for those 5 years.  There was a bunch of goo in the carburetor, which used to be fuel.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5292.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5292.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5292-450x600.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5293.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5293.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5293-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5293-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took the carb apart and cleaned it out.  Not a rebuild, but a good cleaning.  I may need to do an actual rebuild, but I think this will work for now.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5295.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5295.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5295-450x600.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The engine originally had computer controlled fuel injection. The PO replaced this with an Edelbrock intake, and an AVS2 carburetor. By his description, he put fuel in the tank about 5 years ago, and got the engine started. I&#8217;m pretty sure that the carb and intake was brand new at that time, along with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}