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Thought you guys might be interested in my carb rebuild pictures.

When I disassembled the carborator a few months ago when I first got my 38A1, it looked like $&%!



After I took apart the insides, I discovered it looked even worse. Fuel deposits everywhere -- and there was this white powder everywhere, that I assumed was lead. Not to mention all the parts! But I finally bit the bullet last weekend and this weekend and fixed it all up! Lots of elbow grease, scotch brite, Mineral sprits, POR-15 and a can of clear coat went towards this.





Not to shabby for a 16 year old, eh?

I do have one question though. I know of companys like AJP and stuff that sell "show carbs" -- for...well...show vehicles. I was wondering if anyone had one of these, and I would like to see how mine compares.

Bob,
She sure is a purtey one. But will she run? All that white powder you saw also finds it's way into all the those tiny internal passageways, orifices, jets and nozzles. Professional carb rebuilders will soak the carb in some really serious heavy duty cleaner. Remove all the passageway closeout plugs and clean all the passageways, orifices and nozzles individually. A clog in any of these will give you a lot of serious grief when you fire her up and can't figure out why she's not running right. Just blasting the openings with air will not always clear them. It will often just inbed the dirt tighter and further inside. Finally the pro rebuilder will replate the bowl and airhorn before reassembling all of it and setting all the preliminary settings.
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I guess that's the ultimate question.

I tried to clean out those out pretty vigerously and even let the castings and stuff sit in Acetone for a few days. Oh well, guess we'll find out within the next week or two! Have to finish making all of the lines, mount the fuel pump, starter and radiator on and the engine will be ready to fire up!