Got the Carb kit from the Carb doctor. Opened the 2GV carb up and was met with a perfectly clean bowl and all passages. Zero drama here.
The base and base to body gaskets were tired. Upper was still good. Found the accelerator pump cup was torn, as expected. Blew out all the passages with carb cleaner. All good. A little confused not to find a check ball at the bottom of the pump cavity, but this model does not have one, just one behind a little spring and T in the discharge port.
And the one thing that I found that explains the flooding...the needle seat was sitting in place loose. Like no contact with the carb body and the seat seal. Removed it with my fingers and the little red gasket was torn. Fuel was obviously getting around the seat. Simple!
Back together, new parts, float level measured good. Needles back to where they were. Back on the engine, fired up right away.
And guess what...NO MORE MISS AT IDLE!!! Gone! And along with it the fear of it being a wiped lobe. Runs absolutely perfect and quiet. Smooth, better power even. Maybe having the better running voltage along with the carb kit did the trick.
I'm very happy now.
Next job, drop the tank and install a new sender. Fun, wow!
Spent the whole day in my favourite wrecking yard in Minnesota. Sorry, no pictures but wow, I'm amazed every time I go there. I don't know of a yard with more 50's and 60's cars. 40 acre yard that is coming up on 70 years old in about one more year.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Spent the whole day in my favourite wrecking yard in Minnesota. Sorry, no pictures but wow, I'm amazed every time I go there. I don't know of a yard with more 50's and 60's cars. 40 acre yard that is coming up on 70 years old in about one more year.
same stuff in the yard or is he always adding to the inventory?
Mostly stable, selling off the odd car but today when I walked in the first thing I saw was a 1961 Merc that he just got in. Every so often he comes up with a surprise.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
After procrastinating for too long, I finally changed the fuel sender in the 69 today. Just to make it interesting, I did it with 1/2 a tank of fuel. Made a little platform that drops into the floor jack and fits between the straps. Worked great.
Always be sure to cap the vent and sender outlets before moving a tank 1/2 full. I leaned this on the 67 tank. Removing the old sender and looking inside, the tank appears in good condition. Most would replace it at this point, but it's fine.
Last fall I tried improving the ground in the hope that was it, but no change. Trouble shooting back then, I jumpered the new sender to the 20 Tan wire connection at the trunk latch, added a ground and sure enough the gauge worked and moved with the float.
Looks like the old one is original to the car. Can it be repaired? Maybe, but the inlet tube is pretty crusty. Maybe I'll give it a shot. I now in no way expect the new one to last very long, it really looks like a piece of crap I'm sorry to say. Quality is non existant today in the replacement senders, but for now we at least have a measure.
