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Tips and advice for first Quadrajet rebuild
74 Shortbed Funny ya say that... Bought a filter with a check valve in it and the damn check valve swelled up causing barely any fuel to get through into the carb. Picked up a filter on the way home from work tonight that doesn't have the check valve. 1987 GMC Jimmy I did look at my...- NGH14
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- Forum: Carb Fuel Systems
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Tips and advice for first Quadrajet rebuild
Thanks for the tips and advice guys, definitely helped reading that tuning sheet, I'll have time in the morning to partially disassemble this thing again and see what might be wrong or what has gone wrong. Can't imagine too much had happened considering this thing was running fine for over a 24...- NGH14
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- Forum: Carb Fuel Systems
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Tips and advice for first Quadrajet rebuild
SkinnyG My fast idle seems to take quite a long time to kick down, as far as loosening the choke goes, are you talking about the choke itself or the speed adjustment? Quadrajet Power Is it even necessary to have the lockout piece on the carb? I set my float to 13/32" as per the data table I...- NGH14
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- Forum: Carb Fuel Systems
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Tips and advice for first Quadrajet rebuild
Well things seemed well for about a day after the rebuild haha. Completely tore it down, cleaned the insides as well as I possibly could without damaging any of the coating inside the case, rebuilt it with a NAPA kit, with a new float, and accerlator pump from quadrajetparts.com, and a new...- NGH14
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- Forum: Carb Fuel Systems
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Tips and advice for first Quadrajet rebuild
Jarhead79 I am planning on doing it myself. If I can tear a part an Allison transmission I think I can do this with as much research as I've done haha. But considering this is my first time I definitely want as much advice and and knowledge as possible. throttle out My choke/thermostat...- NGH14
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- Forum: Carb Fuel Systems
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Tips and advice for first Quadrajet rebuild
First time posting here after lurking for quite a long time, but I decided this weekend I'm going to go ahead and rebuild the quadrajet off of my 86' k2500 camper special after it not being touched for 30 years. I've done quite a bit of research before diving into this thing, as I'll be...- NGH14
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- Forum: Carb Fuel Systems
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Very odd transmission issue on a GMC C2500/350
Hello all, I'm hoping someone can help me figure out this problem before I have to go digging in the transmission. I left my GMC parked and sit for a couple of days over last weekend, when I went to start it up on Wednesday morning, it had a rough time trying to start, almost like something...- NGH14
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- Forum: Manual Transmission & Clutch
