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It's the dude who wanted so much to see what happens inside a running carburetor that he built his own out of plex.

And then got it to work and (what else?) made a YouTube video. Which someone (sorry, can't remember who) posted here a few weeks ago.

The dude has now gone to the Holley carburetor factory and shows the step by step of how one is made. If you thought you knew how complicated these things are, multiply that times six.

This may explain why it's very likely that your brand new carbs still have some shmutz floating around inside somewhere. Holley does claim they flow test every one individually, but I wonder if Weber does.

And how come you can't set the float on a Weber with a simple screw adjustment on the outside while it's running ?

Extra added bonus: See where the secret brass thingies are installed.



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Because. Setting the float height externally while it's running is for weanies and poopieheads.

Just send them to me. Webers, Dells, either is fine.

Brand new = dirty from any manufacturer of any carb AFAIK. I always disassemble clean, and set them first.

I just set up a set of relatively clean lightly-used Spanish Webers. They looked pretty good, but now they look NEW, and work like new and are spotlessly CLEAN.

FYI, Porsche used Solexes for a while and they are set while running, but you need a special tool ($$$$$$) to do this.

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