In order to have some "projects" and to not be cold while doing them, I brought my carburetor and distributor home to the work bench to spiffy up for spring.
The distributor clean up went very well so I turned my attention today to the carb. Thanks to a previous thread about poor idle performance I learned that I had an idle port above the throttle plate, which we nicely clogged. a little work with a bit of monel sizing wire fixed that. Then I turned my attention to the floats, needle valve and jets. Floats were very our of wack, with the closed measurement being 1 3/8" vs 1 5/32. Most other passages and jets were clean and seemed fine, until I came to the idle jet.
The idle jet was badls stuck in its threaded hole, after working at it a while I managed to turn is about 1/2 turn out before the soft brass or bronze gave up and I lost the ability to use a screwdriver. Using a small reverse drill I drilled out the center of the jet in prep for an easy out removal. BUT even the easy out will not budge it. Im considering retaping the hole in preparation for a new idle jet. Does anyone know the tape size and pitch required?
Great, I just checked the online catalog and it seems that an "idle jet" alone is not available, anyone have a spare lying about?
Thanks
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