Greeting from sunny Florida. Our weather has been C3 friendly but I am having some carb problems. I went to the Ecklers reunion which was a 3 hour drive from the house. When I would punch it to get on the interstate it would choke up, i'd finally work it's self out but it's not right. Around town it's running too rich, there's smell of gas in the exhaust all the time. Any suggestions? I know enough about carb's to be dangerious and  I do know they can be touchy. Any tricks I can try prior to taking it into the shop?

Sounds like a stuck/malfunctioning choke to me, too.

Yep, I'd go with the check the choke option first also.
Is it a Q-Jet ? I got to learrn lots about the Q-Jet
choke on my '81 as I returned it to fully operational
after previous owner had simply rendered it inoperative
presumably 'cos it went faulty. Let me know...

Kiwi Chris

[QUOTE=CeeDee]Yep, I'd go with the check the choke option first also.
Is it a Q-Jet ? I got to learrn lots about the Q-Jet
choke on my '81 as I returned it to fully operational
after previous owner had simply rendered it inoperative
presumably 'cos it went faulty. Let me know...

Kiwi Chris [/QUOTE]

 Just rebuilt mine and they are really not that difficult... a couple tricks as far as assembly. Comes apart in 3 sections... I think Ken has a post on here with details of a rebuild... Mine was running fine but I wanted to clean it up and decided to do the rebuild too... looks and runs fine now...... I didn't have to mess withthe choke so that was not an issue for me... and if you follow Ken's tips to the letter... should not be a problem.. I did forget one thing tho... the black cover that goes over the float and getting the top gasket down over the primary pump... also make sure the primary pump is seated all the way.. easy things to look over... i made mistake of getting in a hurry...

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Go to HERE, and click on "Ken's Projects", and then click on the "Quadrajet" icon. It is a detailed description of the quadrapuke rebuild procedure.


btw.........this should be in the "Fuel/emiss." forum! Adams' Apple38675.9229513889

Stuck float, dirt needle valve assy. choke pull off.

[QUOTE=72 blue shark]Greeting from sunny Florida. Our weather has been C3 friendly but I am having some carb problems. I went to the Ecklers reunion which was a 3 hour drive from the house. When I would punch it to get on the interstate it would choke up, i'd finally work it's self out but it's not right. Around town it's running too rich, there's smell of gas in the exhaust all the time. Any suggestions? I know enough about carb's to be dangerious and  I do know they can be touchy. Any tricks I can try prior to taking it into the shop?[/QUOTE]

Just my 2 cents... Is it carb or is it possible ignition?... I had a plug wire loose one time and it had the smell of unburned gas too and idled pretty smooth but just not much on top end.. ...

Well I took the car into the shop they are tell me to rebuild or replace. They are saying I am having a vacume problem, it's not down shifting when I punch it. So then the carb fills with fuel and chokes out. I ordered a Holley 650 cfm. I going to put it on and see if that doesn't take care of it, if not to the shop it goes. The trans was rebuilt prior to my buying her so I don't think that's the issue. This whole issue of carbrators is a hard one not being an expert. I don't race or even have a heavy foot for that matter. So I just took the simple way out. It was suggested that I change out the intake at the same time. This is all a hard sell with the misses being it's holiday time. I guess I just bought MY Christmas gift, a carbrator! Thanks for all the input and suggestions.