I rebuilt it.. well I went to NAPA, bought a rebuild kit for $50.00. (Kragen had one, but through special order, and for about $40.00. But I wanted it immediately, so I paid the $50.00 at Napa Auto.
I put in the new parts, after taking off the carb. I then put the carb back on, and all the problems are now fixed. (well for a car with 300,00 miles, it's running great now..)
I was a bit worried about getting al the vacuum lines and linkages back in the correct order. I was going to tag each one, but instead I grabbed our new HP Digital camera and took some shots without good aim, there was no room under the hood, so I just held it with both hands, and used the flash and pinted at several different angles.
The pictures are extremely clear!! You can read al the print, writing, details on every single part! Unbelieavbly clear uplocse, great focus, color and detail! Just the best ever!
Anyway, it turend out it helped me double check my work int he re-attachments.
Before I bought the rebuild kit I looked up the prices of rebuilt carbs and found them to be around $500.00 !! so I went with the rebuilt kit. I have not rebuilt a carb for many many years, and it took me 1 day and 1 night... (was up the whole night) it would have saved me great time and work had I had a solvent tank ful of carb cleaner, but I don't have one, so al the cleaning was by hand with only some spray cans of cleaner...
for those that don't know.. if you can get the cleaner basket with the big can of liquid barb cleaner anhd let it soak for 24 hours if you really want it perfect and clean. there is no other way. ( I am know allergic to many7 petro checmicals so I try to avoid them, my hands turn read swell, crack and bleed, so I don't car to use petro checmical much). But ther eis npo other way, unles syou have access to a shop thyat can do it for you.
I also kept the same flaot setting and choke setting, as I felt it was worht the risk to leave those as it. But, I can always take it partially aprt ont he car if I ever have to go back and tweak any minor settings. The kit was a full kit. Instructions ar enot for the beginner. So, if you have never done a carb before I would advise against learning on a complicated carb.
if you have enough money buy a good rebuilt. When I was younger I would purchase rebuilt from the local auto suplly and got a few bad ones. The rebuilts do not replace the shaft sleeves (I think they are brass and the are the holes that the throttle plate shaft run through, as sometimes through wear they become egg shpaed and unless you get those replced the shaft wobble/if they are worn).
The floats in newer carbs are a type of plastic and do not wear out, the old tin ones would develop leaks or other problems and would not flaot correctly. the plastic type last forever.
The most important parts 9they are al very veyr important, but the needle vale and seat and the gaskets are most important. The primary and primary pumps are also very imprtant, but you must get it all dissasembled and cleaned.
Always remember to stuff a rag, or cover the intake manifild to make sure nothing at all gets into the intake with the carb off. You wil be thr sorriest person and car on earth if anything does.
Don't overtighten and break a carb bolt, or you wil never get it to run good again, so watch your torguing of the carb bolts.
The Toyota carb has these electronic solenoids, which are a total bitch to put back in, only because the wired are soldered on and you have to screw them back in, and unless you unsoldered them to screw them back in, the twisting of the wired sucks big time!
Good luck to all those the rebuild carbs!!
Now back to some very very fine tuning over the next couple of days, my wife says the car runs great.... which helps me because I am very tired from all the work.. and can't deal with complaints..
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