Update... There is some good points here, and as always, I have learned a lot. If I can float my own boat for a few lines... I am a 25 year Journeyman Plumber, with an enormous amount of common sense, mechanical ability and working knowledge in all trades. I had top secret clearance on some nuclear carriers back in the early 90's. I don't watch sports. Never seen a football game all the way thru. In 58 years, never been high, was the lead singer of a rock band for 7 years and never did any drugs, had BAGS of Cocaine passed under my nose, never tried it, never experimented with ANYTHING. I drink 20 beers a year, and maybe the same glasses of wine. I AM a MACHINE!! People ask me how I know SO much about SO many things. I tell them cause I am not sitting in front of the TV all weekend for the last 30 years watching sports
Someone called me and asked me why HOT water was coming out of the cold side of their faucet. And I knew in ONE second what the cause was. But... I am just not a great CAR mechanic, a shade tree mechanic at best. I used to really like 500 Carter AFB's and when a Holley is set-up, it really is great. I never rebuilt an engine in auto shop. I am still learning.. I don't like to see you guys get heated. So sorry about that..
With that said... I ALWAYS seem to get these crazy little gremlins, it never fails.
Of course when I looked inside the carb and seen the secondary blades covered in fresh fuel... I then looked outside the shaft on both sides and fuel began to slowly come out. If you look at my video from my first post, you will see it. So if the blades are closed, and you walk out and spill a little fuel in the secondary side of the carb, it WILL come out both sides. And I do remember setting up my other carb with the 15 thousands on wide open throttle on the accelerator pump. You need SOME play or it may bottom out. But not my issue as this is vacuum secondary as mentioned previously. Sprayed the throttle shaft at an idle and no change, so no vac leak there. Installed another pressure gauge made by Holley, and it read the same as the Marshall. The Quick-Fuel regulator comes preset at 6.5. When I cut it into the line, the Marshall read exactly 6.5! It seems to be a good one.
I took the carb off of Raquel and put it on Melissa. I then took the carb back to the rebuilder Friday. I drove the car to him today at 3pm and we installed the carb back on. Fired it up and let it run a minute. Shut it down and there was NO leakage, and the throttle blades stayed dry. Fired it back up and let it run for a while to operating temp, shut it off, STILL no leakage. I asked him what he did and he said he put the ball back in the secondary pod. And he said he cleaned and looked at EVERYTHING he possibly could and found no issue. So decided the only internal moving part was the PV, so he changed it. I was going to do that next as my vac is 11 at an idle. So I was going to change out the 6.5's and throw in some 5.5's or 6.0's. Maybe even 5.0.. My PV tester has no gauge. So maybe it just held for a second, and I thought it was good and released it and watched it bounce back. You can bet I am going to go get a good one ASAP.
I wish I knew for sure if it was the ball or the PV. Drove it home 15 miles, pulled it in the garage and checked again, no leakage. Issue at least for now is solved. Hope it stays that way. Thanx to all of you for the help. Stay tuned for a new post on the new car, and everything I have done to it since Easter... Danny
