I need a carb. What kind should I get?

[ErwinRommel]

It's an Edelbrock performance series 4 barrel electric choke carb. SAME ONE OUT OF THE LMC AND PARTS DEPOT magazine.

I got the number #

AFB Edelbrock 1406 3153

[hotrodpc]

Well, then these guys are full of $***. That is a 600 CFM and just fine for a V8. So, go with that carb, its the right carb. Just get to the bottom of it and find out who is stroking you, these guys or the last guy. I am leaning toward these guys if they are telling you its to much carb.

[leolkfrm]

maybe it's rebuilt, but it appears to be done wrong! so get another kit and have them rebuild it again, when they find out what the other guy messed up, go back tell him you want a refund and why

[hotrodpc]

Yep, I agree Leo, as I said upthere, I have rebuilt a carb before and used the wrong gasket before and it did not work right. Just becasue its rebuilt does not mean its right. Maybe the guy is like me, he rebuilds a carb and there is 50/50 chance its right. LOL, However I am about to tackle rebuilding a Rochesterer Quadrajunk. The worse I can do is mess it up, but I think with patience and paying close attention to what I am doing, its gonna be fine.

[ErwinRommel]

They said the mechanic that rebuilt my carb is a good carb guy. I don't know.

That truck has a 351M/400 in it and that carb is fine!


I might just bring the truck to my house. I think. Work on it myself. I ain't got enough of money to deal with it all right now. Think I should?

[hotrodpc]

I thought you were just getting brakes and some suspension work fixed anyway? Is all that done? Its safe to drive now?

[ErwinRommel]

Originally Posted by hotrodpc

I thought you were just getting brakes and some suspension work fixed anyway? Is all that done? Its safe to drive now?

No, no one has even started on the brakes or the steering yet!

-This is how it happen from the beginning. I was needing my carb set, front rotors turned and brake pads put on and brakes bled, and then fix my steering.
-Took it to the first mechanic (tooks a couple of days or at least a week for him to start on it). Guy said he pulled it up in another place one day and when he went back out, it didn't want to crank.
-So they told me I had to get a new distributor, spark plugs and wires, ignition control module, and cap for distributor. (DIDN'T KNOW I HAD TO GET ALL OF THIS STUFF BECAUSE I WANTED TO GET THE OTHER STUFF FIXED). So they fixed it.
-Found out I had to get a rebuilt kit for my carb. Inside of the carb was dirty as can be so the main mechanic cleaned it out. Brought back the rebuilding kit. Came back a day or so later (maybe a 3-4 weeks now since I haven't had my truck). He had the carb on the truck. They didn't set it yet.



He told me he was going to start on it the following monday because it was friday (But I overheard him telling another person who needed a truck fix that he will start theirs on Monday)...

SO I SAID SHOOT! I'm going to get my **** truck back and carry it to someone else since he is going to drag is *** around cause each day more vehicles pulled up. It wouldn't take that **** long to fix my truck.

So I told him and I paid him $260

Took it down the road to these mechanics and they told me this about what I told yall about the carb! (IT'S BEEN SITTING AT THESE MECHANICS FOR A WEEK +!)

[hotrodpc]

Exactly why I learned and taught myself to work on vehicles. I hate to be at others people mercy. And worse, people you are paying. And back in those days for me, there was no internet to get answers, so I learned the hard way and with help from the old timers telling me what screws to turn. Of course they never got their hands dirty, I usually just called them up. Tough way to learn, but I probably learned and know more about things than you can learn in a classroom.

[ErwinRommel]

So think I should just get the truck and bring it to my house? It ain't far unlike when it was at the Farm.

I can just try to work on it...i just don't have enough of money to pay other people and then they try to take advantage of me. Steering shouldn't be hard to fix? Plus getting the rotors off shouldn't be hard either? Carb hard to fix?


I sure don't want to take it to a shadetree mechanic either...LOL!

[ErwinRommel]

Went back up there again today.
Asked him what is wrong with it, I wanted to know.
He said it was getting to much gas.

I told him well it ain't set
He said, well it's getting to much gas so it's a bad carburetor. We tried to set it and it didn't work.

I said well I'm just going to get it and carry it to the mechanic and get it back. He said No. He said I just need to break the carb and get another. Another guy there said Edelbrocks suck.

I said well he shouldn't told me to get a rebuilt kit if it was not a good carb.

The main mechanic said well if I know something is messed up, I won't mess with it.



THINK I NEED TO GO GET THE TRUCK NOW AND BRING IT HOME?