Carb Linkage for Bill S found

Bill,

are you still looking for a linkage arm?

If so I found one upstairs in the secret stash of stuff I know I'll need someday before I die (I hope, otherwise I've simply amassed a bunch of junk {})

Ball Linkage LF carb...is that it?

If so and you still need it em your address to jvallan069@aol.com and I'll put it in the mail to you.

Regards, JRV

Thanks JRV. Close but unfortunately the wrong one. I need the one for the LR (3-4 cylinder) carb.

The LF lever on my car has a tab to connect with the RF carb yoke. The LR carb that I need (3-4 cylinder), has a yoke to connect with a tab on the RR (1-2 cylinder) carb.

Yup, I still need one or I have to retrofit a used one. I have a free used one but the ball stud has seen better days and the lever was bent at one time.

Thank you very much though.

JRV,

Item 44 is the lever I need.

Bill,

yes that's the one I found, #44. I mistakenly thought it was the 7-8 Carb, but turns out it's a 3-4 Carb.

It's used if that matters.

Regards, JRV

JRV,
If it's in good/excellent shape, I'd love to have it and would be happy to pay for it. I'll email you my address. Thanks again JRV.
bill

I'll post a pic later and you can be the judge of whether it's what you're looking for.

Regards, JRV

JRV,

The mailman delivered the lever arm today and I think it will work fine. This is the last piece I need to replace my carbs with the new GT-4 ones I recently purchased.

I'm going to deal with sloppiness in the push rod linkage next and then fit hose barbs into the intake maniflods to facilitate carb balancing by direct measurent of intake manifold vacuum with a bank of 8-fluid filled manometers.

Hey Bill, hope the arm works out.

Keep us updated on the carb tuning/balance proceedures you're developing as others might find it helpful.

Regards, JRV

I have a couple of BK Synchrometers for measuring air flow for balancing carbs. I find their accuracy barely sufficient. Maybe the SK versions are better for idle conditions but I don't know for sure. The problem is one can only look at 1 or 2-cylinders at a time. What to do?

I removed the hard plumbing for evacuating the charcoal canister and tapped the resulting holes in the intake manifolds for 1/8 inch pipe taps, right angle barbs. Flexible hoses were connected between the barbs on each intake manifold and 2-carb tuner manometers, like the motor cycle guys use. Balancing becomes really easy with this instrumentation. It measures the intake manifold vacuum in all cylinders simultaneously and is exquisitively sensitive. One merely equalizes the vacuum between cylinders at a given rpm and you are done.

Cool , I like it.So just what is the procedure. How do you start and what do you adjust. Can you please give us a blow by blow approach here. Thanks