Classic Car Tech- Understanding Carburetors 

Noone in my years of living has ever clearly explained all this to me. Thank you so much.

in the Commonwealth, this man would receive a knighthood

Not gonna lie, I'm a younger guy. I have an older friend who works on my carbs lol. He's the carb whisperer. Thanks for this. I just want to tell you that I am pretty thankful to have your videos sir. I was honestly to afraid to tear down an engine that's been in my garage for years. I figured I'd get stuck on something or break something not knowing what to do, and then I wouldn't have anybody to help me if I messed up. I saw your video literally used it as a tutorial. I don't know what the hell I had been so worried about. I guess that's my adhd kicking in lol. I'm actually because of you Tony, going to rebuild the original motor for my barracuda. I'm doing it. Thank you sir. I really mean that. Your channel has done more to get me back out into the garage than anything in my life! I'm constantly tinkering now, I'm always looking for parts and motors for stuff lol.

And now it all makes sense... Almost 30 min without a cig too! Impressive!

Here I thought I only watched for 5 minutes, without realizing that I'd watched the entire video! That's how you distinguish a great channel from a lesser one, the great channel keeps the audience captivated no matter the topic! Great video as always!

I cancel my TV channels. This channel is better than all the motor channels ... really good work Tony! 👍👍👍

Fuel Injection is great because it has made used carburetors cheap. Luv my quadrajets and afb's

I was raised on carburetors, all my dad's cars had carburetors , my first car had a carburetor. I used to adjust them all the time , "the chock the jets the idle screw ect ! " I used to be like uncle Tony I used to have extra parts in the trunk of my car because I was raised to not depend on nobody and to always be prepared. Like 1 time we got stranded on the side of the highway 41(CA) because we were going to pismo beach and my distributor was acting up , but lucky for me I had a spare in my trunk I put it on and I was on my way , it took less than 20 minutes to get on the road again! Thanks for another good video uncle tony!

Years ago I bought a NAPA rebuild kit for Dad's 225 slant-six Dodge van for $16. It had a single-barrel Carter carb. Included were instructions. I followed the instructions carefully (I substituted using my thumb as a vacuum source for the dashpots - push in dashpot, hold thumb over vac port). I bent all the rods and measured everything to get things to exact specs. A few hours later I had a perfect-running van that automatically kicked down from each step of hi-idle. I was SHOCKED! For years, Dad took the van to several Dodge dealers who played around and even put 2 new factory carbs on it and could not get it right - all problems were related to the electric servo/stepper motor operated choke. I think it was also the moment I decided that I would never take another car to a dealer to get fixed. It amazed me how little even the dealer mechs knew about carbs. Thanks for yet another terrific video!

The mark of knowledge of a subject is the ability to explain it well to others. Great job Tony.

Thank you. I have owned several carbureted vehicles, including my current 1985 Dodge Ram B250 van. Many shops won't touch a carburetor these days.

I'm a retired mechanic. Tony is the best automotive teacher I've ever seen. Love the info.

When the engine is turning, air is sucked into the intake manifold. The carb sits on top with a fuel line connected. In its most basic form, a carburetor is a mechanical atomizer. Great explanation Unc.

Thanks for another good educational vid Uncle Tony! I'm only 27 but I'm a die hard carb guy and it grinds my gears so bad when people list instant startups, instant throttle response and good gas mileage as advantages specific only to fuel injection. My 68 Satellite, 73 Mustang, 75 F100 and 84 Trans Am all start up immediately! Your fingers aren't even on the switch for half a second before they fire up! The cold starts and throttle response on my Satellite are the kind of instant action modern fuelie guys are chasing when they punch around on a laptop. The Satellite also gets amazing gas mileage for a 50+ year old car with a carbureted cast iron V8. I haven't checked the MPG since I changed the motor and rear gear but I used to get just over 25 MPG on the highway with the same carb back when I had a 273/2.76 combo. When you can get better cold starts, better throttle response, better overall power, better reliability/maintainability and comparable fuel economy for roughly a fourth of what an EFI system costs the answer is clear!

OBD? How about O.S.D. (Old School Diagnostics) where, as you say, "I am the computer!"

Carbs where the first thing I learned to rebuild 😊 and after that a 200r4 transmission. Efi seamed complicated but really it was not, so yeah I'm 26 now and i do like my tech 😅

Tony- I love this shit! Brings me back to my youth... back in the 80's I drilled three holes in my old Nikki four barrel (oem) float bowl lid on my Mazda Wankle/Rotary truck (REPU). I soldered bent copper tubes into it about 6" long- one to the left, one straight up, one to the right as a fuel "escape buffer" for hard cornering. these ran up into the air filter housing and gave the fuel a place to go rather than flooding me out in autocross/hard cornering..(removed all emissions controls) It was a pretty cool modification. I also made up a simple linkage to convert it's vacuum secondaries to manual and removed the choke. That truck was scary fast!

Have 16 thermoquads in the shed. I refuse to put efi on my old mopars. A properly tuned carb is just about as good as efi. It’s cheaper. Easier. Less complex and at WOT they can make more powerthan efi. Another great video, Uncle.

Truly a RU-vid treasure. Thank you for this amazing video. I remember when I was a kid, people used to joke carburetor is Italian for leave it alone

I wanted to thank you for this video, I'm in the younger crowd that understands fuel injection but never touched a carb in my life. I work in an auto parts store and this will help me help people with older cars better

Good simple explanation of the carb. I have in my time bought cars cheap because of bad carbs and the people just wanted to get rid of car. So that's where a bad carb is a good carb.lol

Very informative mate! Your video's are getting better and better! Please don't change your format!

been playing with carbs for 40 years, this is the best explanation I have seen of how they actually work. Nice to get back to the basics, helps with troubleshooting and tuning.

As a tech it's been over 20 years since I've sat through a basic carb class. Well done and thanks for the refresher.

My first carbureted vehicle? A 1977 29 ft Bayliner with not one, but two 305 SBC's, and Carter BBD's! Won it at the "Abandoned boats sale" over at the moorage. This vid is a blessing. I'm gonna need it, this boat is a time capsule. Stuck in 1977 w/ all the 70's funky upholstry that hasn't been started in a few years. Fascinating stuff! As a space millenial, my first instinct when I see a carb is to poke it with a stick, but after watching your vids, I'm ready to do things like, set float height and stick steel bristles into idle jets! Thanks to you, i'll be ripping down the river in my shag water craft in no time!

Passing on your knowledge. Very respectable. I have been told i have a knack for carburetors. I just think nobody else wants to fix em.

Love these more technical episodes. Your way of explaining engineering concepts is incredibly clear and easy to grasp.

This video helped me fill in the gaps of my carb knowledge. 30 minutes of video just leaves you wanting more!

I've been fooling with carbs 60 years. I have a hard time explaining to others how they really work. You clearly explained it all, without over-complicating it into a big messy engineering essay. You have rare skills for instructing average people who are not gearheads like we are! Very well-done, once again, Uncle Tony! Thank you!

I like this old school tech series , I know the new stuff really well as a pcm programmer. Just dont understand analog stuff. You nailed it.

This video really takes the mystery out of carburetors. I remember being overwhelmed the first time I pulled the Mikunis off of my FZ1. I spent hours learning the ins and outs of those things, mostly by screwing things up, like misplacing the starters and mains. Lessons learned, skills developed, and now it's a breeze. I have owned this particular bike since about 2008, and don't think I will switch to fuel injected bikes any time soon. The carbs may leave you with mileage/power fluctuations at different altitudes, but maintenance and upkeep is much cheaper, and easier. And as Uncle Tony stated, MOAR POWER!

Carburetion Theory 102 This would have been the best class in the Auto Tech Program if taught by Professor Tony.

Yo Uncle T, great stuff. I’ve been an ASE Tech for 10 years and this was the first time I actually understood what all that analog witchcraft did. Everything in tech school was EFI and and scan tools. Only one instructor had even worked on analog professionally. Thanks Uncle Tony.

To me, carburetors are voodoo and black magic. You must be a wizard to work on them. I suppose it's because my father did not have the patience to work on them. Thank you for posting this great video. You have helped with another of my "unsolved mysteries of the Universe." "Internal combustion happiness happens" I started laughing and woke up Bambi the Chihuahua and disturbed the sleeping cats. LOL

Nice to see an old school tech making it on RU-vid. At 53 I've finally started mine. Keep inspiring. Thanks

I have watched about a 100 of your videos and now I am here to pay homage to you. I have finally figured out the problem with a WWC 2 barrel Stromberg carburetor that I believe is original to the 1967 Chevrolet C70 gasoline powered dump truck I have owned since 1990. The dump truck has a GMC big block 401 Magnum V6. It says so on an ID block on the right side of the engine front of the cylinder head area. This dump truck only has about 80,000 miles on it for being 54 years old. I can tell you that this truck has always made me feel uncomfortable when ever I licensed it to drive it on the road because it hesitated on acceleration. But we humans adapt and continue to drive it even though something is obviously wrong. Maybe 20 years ago I put a rebuild kit on this WWC carb. The instructions that come in the rebuild box are very poor. I was always suspect of the accelerator pump. This new kit I bought from Walker products had a very illegible blowup of all the parts. I watched your video and got a better understanding of the idle system, high speed circuits, port manifold vacuum, manifold vacuum, and accelerator pump circuit. I FOUND OUT THE CARBURETOR WAS DEFECTIVE FROM THE FACTORY. This truck was built at the Pontiac GMC factory in 1967. The manufacturer of the Stromberg WWC carburetor is located in Elmira, NY. The defect I found was in the air horn venturi part that sprays the fuel down the throat of the carburetor. At the bottom of the accelerator pump is a BB size ball to act as a check valve. When the accelerator plunger moves down the check ball seals the plunger chamber and the fuel is forced through another passage to the venturi air horn circuit. A smaller check ball resides in the air horn . When I assembled the carb and installed it fuel never sprayed through the venturi horn and into the throat. It oozed out of another hole that had been covered up with maybe JB Weld. I had removed the JB Weld and the fuel just oozed out of that hole. I threaded the hole with a 6 X 32 tap and put a little screw with a little flat washer in the hole. After doing that I could not install the accelerator pump. It was hydraulically locked because I left the fuel in it and in the fuel bowl. I removed the 3 screws that hold the air horn venturi in place and examined the air horn venturi. I found out that no hole existed to allow the fuel to get into a chamber that has the holes for spraying into the throat of the carburetor. I removed the little 6 X 32 screw I installed. I drilled a 1/32 hole from the tiny BB area into the venturi chamber that sprays into the throat. Now I found another problem that the parts blowup does not show. On top of the carb by the hold down rod is a metering type hollow thread screw. Fuel was being pumped up this hollow screw when the accelerator pump was activated. I had an extra small BB from the carb kit. I ended up putting a small spring for the BB to set on in the metering hole. This ball acts like a check valve keeping fuel from spraying out of top of carb when accelerator pump is depressed. I finally got a nice stream of fuel spraying down the throat of the carburetor. I was up till 2 am outside in 29 degree weather praying to God that the big old V6 Magnum would not catch fire as I messed with the timing. Huge balls of flame where lighting up while I cranked the engine. Gas was dripping everywhere. I know it was not the float. I had messed with the 90 degree elbow brass fitting so much it developed a crack in it. I dug threw all my brass fittings and found a suitable replacement. Finally the engine started but it sounded like it was running on half the cylinders. But it idled at about 700 RPM. I pulled plug wires and found a dead number 2. I cleaned the spark plug and still no power from that cylinder. I pulled the valve cover and the intake push rod looked like a pretzel. This engine has solid lifters. I found Melling push rods MPR121 and am waiting for the parts. I believe all the back firing through the carb bent 2 intake push rods. I still have to check the drivers side. I can't believe I fixed a 54 year old manufacture defect. Thanks Tony. I think I am older than you so its hard to say uncle. I need this dump truck to work real bad.

Perfect. A 10,000 ft view of the basic subsystems, what they do and loosely speaking, how they do it. Now I'm competent enough to ask Google the right questions. Again, perfect. Thanks Tony.

I adjust my 650 holley with the manual choke and vacuum secondarys with a large ball peen hammer. Kicking my self for not keeping the Quadratoilet.

I'm in my 50s, been into things mechanical since I was a little kid in the 70s. My first carburetors were on Briggs and Tecumseh engines on lawn mowers and later mini bikes and go karts. In 1980 I started high school at a state Tech/Vocational school and I enrolled in the automotive trades course. My auto shop teacher was old school, mean, demanding and sarcastic and that's what made him so great. He explained carburetors about the same as this but there was one more thing he taught us. Carburetors operate on pressure differentials. Inside the throttle bores are what's called a venturi. What that is, is where the main fuel discharge is, the throttle bores neck down a little smaller than the rest of the throttle bore. As the air moves through the venturi, it speeds up and that creates a low pressure, or vacuum within the venturi and that vacuum is what draws the fuel out of the fuel bowl through the main power system or circuit as he called it. Basically the pressure within the venturi is lower than atmospheric pressure so the atmospheric pressure actually pushes the fuel through the main circuit and out of the discharge in the booster.

14:37 yes exactly like a toilet. If float in a toilet tank fails, the toilet tank will overflow.

I love the t-shirt idea. Maybe do a series of them with different distinctive carburetors - Weber, S.U., Holley 4 bbl, Carter, etc., maybe even an old Hilborn mechanical fuel injection system - with the legend "I am the computer" on the bottom.

Thanks Tony, from your insomniacs club! Also as a fellow smoker may I say that I am deeply impressed by you getting through the whole lesson without a cig. You have to have be a smoker or former smoker to know how difficult this is. Just ask me I have quit dozens of times. 👍☮️

Uncle Tony, I'm 33, never subscribed to a youtuber channel till yours. I've never commented on RU-vid until now. You are the reincarnation of my dad, that man is the reason I love old school cars. I love what you do, and how you're doing it. Wife went behind my back, got me a T- shirt and stickers today!!! Keep it up man! My best regards to uncle Cathy!!

This is awesome. I have been given a bunch of cars and engines, because people thought they wher worn out or broken. I rebuilt the carbs on em, and they where fine..

You really brought back some memories with this one. My first car had a 318 with a 2 barrel, which looked identical to the one you took apart, and I was always having to mess with that thing. It didn't help that my gas tank had rust in it that went right past the fuel filter and would get in between the needle and seat. That was over 30 years ago.

57 years old now, been tinkering with vehicles and their components for forty years, and I learn something new with practically every video. Thanks Tony!

Thanks for making this video man! I’m a mechanic for Subaru and I’ve been doing engines for awhile now and like you said I just hadn’t had to understand the carb. Thanks for making a good easy to understand video about carbs!

Great educational video uncle Tony. Well explained for younger generation to understand. My son is 18 and has no intrest in efi on his muscle cars. He can make a jet change at the track in like 5 minutes. Lol. Makes me proud.

Tony is old school. Thanks god there are still people like him. I grew up in 80s an miss the simpler times

Thanks Uncle Tony for taking me back 45 years... I rebuilt a Carter BBD open vent for my '64 Plymouth a dozen times through my early years, and that later 70s vapor bowl version you used in your demonstration reminds me so much of that. Those days were so good for encouraging folks to use their brains for car repair and upkeep, rather than nowadays' just jumping in, turning a key, and going.

Tony you gave the most comprehensive and detailed explanation of carb operation! Much more detailed than any pro instructor! Oh yeah and in words any beginner could understand...I've been in the business for 40 years and feel you could teach some of these new school motorheads where us old school dudes got our talents!!!

When I was in high school 40+ years ago I rebuilt quite a few carbs for others. Mainly Rochesters but there were others in the mix. Used to charge $10-$15 depending on the model. THIS video explains all the basics and would have come in handy 'back in the day'.

I've been working on carbs my whole life, college trained way back when. I still learn something new every time I'm into one!

Thanks Uncle Tony!!! I thought you did a great job and I understand now. My uncle owned and operated a salvage yard and Repair Garage for 40 years. I'm 55 now but when I was 16 I had a 70 duster with a 340 and a Carter 4-barrel. My uncle and I were talking one day and being a young kid I was telling him how I wanted to put a holly on this because everybody told me that Holly was the best. he told me well you can do that but he said that Carter four-barrel is one of the most simplest and easiest carbs to work on and they will perform just as well as a holly. So I wound up buying an accelerator pump because that was the problem and we changed it and that car became alive again that 70 duster was the fastest car in town I miss that car... Of course being 16 and the first car being a duster made me a Mopar fanatic ever since keep up the good work I'm glad to see they're still guys out there like you!!! Jim.

jeez 3:26 am, but hey at least it’s Uncle Tony!

You know it's car learnin' time when the glasses are on

i figured out carburetors when i got an interest in old school motorcycles when I was 17, while I am not fantastic at it I have torn apart a lot of them and have been able to successfully get things running really well. Glad to have it explained this way and reinforce what i know and give me other info that I did not know. Great channel

Internal combustion happiness happens.....gotta love it! I appreciate how he has no written script he just goes through and if he has to turn around and start with another concept, that’s exactly what he does :-) it’s like you’re right in the shop there with him and he’s just chatting with you.

Thank you so much sir for sharing your extensive knowledge with us and explaining it in such an interesting and easily to understand manner. You rock!

"I am the computer". YES! Be your own computer as much as possible in life! --- Great thing about carb rebuild kits is they come w/exploded view instructions exactly like a model car kit. So one can easily glide from model building as a kid right into CARBS w/a little help from Big Tony's no bull videos. I always learn something from each video. THANK YOU!

Thank you so much! Im 38 and finally own my first classic Mopar. Have the Carter AFB 625 CFM 4BBL. This is the first vehicle i've ever owned that is carbed..

Uncle Tony's videos are so good that i give them a like while the add is still playing lol thanks for the info, keep it up brother!!

I am a Hd truck mechanic. I work on trucks that have some times 7 or more computers on board. It is so nice going back to the basics. I just got a 1971 duster twister with a 318. I love the ease of working on it. And just enjoy it. I like the fact you are on here and giving good tech and every time witch you I learn something. No mechanic knows it all but we can all learn from each other. Thanks for your for your time and effort.

Some great explanations on carburetor functions, thank you. I think another reason for fuel injection is reducing exhaust emissions. The formula for the perfect air/fuel mixture becomes so complex when you are trying to reduce emissions more and more, that the "analog" mechanical computer which is a carburetor (metering rods, thermostatic choke control, vacuum choke control, accelerator pump, etc) can no longer cope. Controlling air/fuel mixture becomes a perfect candidate for computer control, which can handle complexity and non-linearity much more easily. Also, with oxygen sensors in the exhaust pipes, fuel injection becomes a "closed loop" system, meaning the computer gets feedback from the oxygen sensors on how well it's doing its air/fuel mixture calculations. Carburetors are "open loop" because there is no feedback whether it mixture is optimal. Of course, pollution thresholds were much higher in the 1960s.

When I was about 13 my dad dropped a box in my lap and said, go rebuild the carb. He was serious, and he needed to drive his car to work in the morning. Me: I've never rebuilt a carb. Him: You better do a good job! I opened the box, kind of went over the instructions. I pulled it off the car, cleaned it up a little, and had it completely apart. I just started putting it back together when he checked up on me. He never did trust me! Lol. A hole! Anyway, I haven't touched a carb in 25 years. This was a good refresher. Can you do a four barrel next time?

Absolutely the best carb explanation ever. Super simple yet so complicated.

I am a complete Newb to getting into my engine. I just bought a 72 Super Beetle and it has been a lifelong dream to work on cars. People talk so fast and skip basic knowledge and I am floundering. This is the first video which has actual explained so clearly that I think I an do this. Thanks so much!!!!!!!!

I know this is a few years old but man I’m so glad I came across your channel. Literally have done the things you explained in this video to my old carter carburetor and now my 65 bonneville is running amazing. Appreciate you giving actual information

Thanks Uncle Tony, carbs have never been explained so clearly to me before. Every one needs a Uncle Tony.

Never heard explained so clearly awesome job!

I went to get my A/P license years ago without a lot of knowledge going in. All the best instructors were old school car guys... just like you. Thank you for doing what you do, so skillfully and thoughtfully, you’re a nice guy too, I can tell. All the best.

Tony is spot on - the carb float bowl, floats and needle valves work on the exact same principle as a toilet tank. My '69 AMX flooded once and after tearing down the Edelbrock 1405, I found the problem. One of the floats was full of gasoline, allowing the needle valve to stay open.

Thank you. I'm restoring my first car (76 D100). Swapped the motor with a 66 slant w/ a Carter single and points. Truck's been sitting since I left for the service in 06. With all this nonsense with the overblown seasonal flu, I've had a lot of extra time to work on her. I've been watching all your vids on the slant. Loved the 'Understanding the Slant Six' video. You remind me of my childhood mentor who taught me most of what I know. I learned about the fuel metering seat, where the idle passages are, how to adjust the idle, and the choke release. Thank you so much! I'll be rebuilding the 76 slant with HEI for performance (nothing crazy) and then I'll rebuild the 66 slant.

I’m not even really a car guy and I look forward to your videos every day. They are the first ones I watch. Thanks.

The Man - The Myth - The Legend!!! He Hath De mystified the Almighty Carburetor!!! Love your explanations. Even a Fool like me can grasp the theory. I am in thy debt Sir.

I'm going to watch this video several more times so I can imbed in my mind all the things that I should have known 15 years ago. Thank you very very much.

Yes! I've rebuilt many carburetors before but NEVER understood what the heck was going on in there...Now it makes sense, clear....concise and to the point in plain English. Thanks Tony!

This is probably the most easily understood video I have seen explaining the good old carb and how it works. Great job Tony!

I’m not a mechanic but I drive old American steel for 17 years and there’s one thing I love to do every time I buy a new old car: refurbish the carb. It’s such a rewarding job. It’s like building a model car but then after you’re done your car drives so much better.

I'm 49 and I don't understand fuel injection and computers in vehicles at all. I keep buying older and older vehicles for my daily drivers so I can work on them myself without plugging them into a scanner or computer and still not knowing how to fix them! Love the channel.

Thanks uncle Tony!!! This was very informative! This helped me understand what’s going in my Carb .

Another informative and very accurate description of how a carby works. Well done Tony, keep em coming .

Guys like him, and like my dad, we should learn as much as we can from them one day they'll be gone, and all their knowledge, I appreciate their time to explain things. Plus he's a mopar guys

Holy hell dude, you know some s**t. "Phenolic resins" (synthetic plastics) DANG. Now I finally understand why my 1970 307 2-barrel had that maddening acceleration flat spot -- the accelerator pump. Only too late, that car is 26 years gone.

Sat down with my first cup and *BOOM!!!*, I'm right back in High School Auto Shop class! Outstanding explanation, my friend.

Great work! I love how you are able to simply come up with the perfect words to on the fly to explain very technical systems. That is a gift my friend and it makes watching your content easy to get! I was born in 84 and as a kid I would watch my dad work on his 49 Ford Pickup or his 68 Pontiac Firebird. And as a teenager my friends and I would tinker with EFI 4 cylinders (VW, Honda's) as they were the type of cars available to us. My grandfather passed away a couple years back and he had a 64 Thunderbird sitting in a shed that was not running and am still in the process of getting it road worthy. I am having a lot of fun with diagnosing all the problems and pulling it apart to see what what is failing. I have rebuilt the carburetor, replaced starter cyliniod, fuel tank, mechanical fuel pump, and the brake booster is in the shop right now getting rebuilt. The reason I am sharing all this is to let you know who is watching and why. Your videos keep me grounded in reality to the scope and long term payoff these projects are. I am so grateful to hear your prospective on how to approach older cars and I want to acknowledge you for respecting other peoples opinion on what kind of cars and systems they are into. I think I am ready to buy a t-shirt 😏

I learned carbs from mowers, then my 85 S10, and this and your channel has helped me so much with my rebuild. I adjusted the float too much and it flooded then stalled, but my first rebuild technically went successful. Thank you!

Somehow I had never seen basic systems outline outlined. I have watched 100 videos on building a quadrajet carburetors this is giantly valuable and helpful. Find myself able to assist myself carburetor wise after 30 minutes I was never able to do so after 50 hours before. Mind blown self-reliant now

Because of you I just got my 84' Dodge D100 running after it sat for atleast 4 years . I really appreciate your expertise 👍

Couple of things I didn't know, thanks.

Great Video. Strange how a relatively simple device that can be traced to the end of the Steam Era can really confuse people. Good systematic explanation. I have shared this video with friends so they can help others deal with the fear and mystery surrounding carburetors. Thanks!

I don't have a garage full of tools, or a bunch of hands-on experience rebuilding engines, but I thoroughly enjoy your videos, keep up the great work, you definitely would've been an awesome shop teacher. You definitely make learning these systems fun, enjoyable, and easy to understand.

Nice concise explanation of the carb. The single best thing I did years ago was buy a few quadrajets at the wrecking yard and tear into them to figure them out after reading whatever I could find. Then I'd try them out on the car and see how bad I screwed it up. And back to the drawing board. I figured if I royally screwed it up, it was a junkyard carb anyway, nothing to lose except the 10 bucks to get it. That exercise made me appreciate the carb even more, and payed off over the years in not hesitating to rip into a carb, to take care of any issues that cropped up.

I was never left on the side of the road because MY carburetor COMPUTER went bad. Analog is the way to keep it simple👍.

Used 318 came with One, was given One and Bought one that was "Rebuilt"... BBD and I've had every problem Are Uncles Tony described here, Rebuilt one myself.. it's been running for 6 years.. Thanks Uncles Tony, always Awesome..

Saturated composite float in QJet ... gave me great respect for brass floats. Lesson learned in 1977. Thanks for sharing Tony. Best to you and yours.

I like your simple explanations, some people over complicate everything but you keep it straight up and no fluff! the carburetor you were using was the best one I know of for the DIY mechanic. I'm still a carburetor guy and probably always will be. love the channel keep up the good work.

You nailed it great job on the explanation Tony THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Tony, If I had a spare one, I could send you one that defies all that you and I spent years learning. The Stromberg CD-150. My only failure with my youngest Daughter, she is into British sports cars. And she likes them stock. She won't let me put a proper Webber 32/36 on it.

Excellent video Uncle Tony, excellent refresher for us that grew up with the carburetor. Still love and use them today in my cars. Looking forward to the next great words of wisdom!!