Sure, don't mind at all. As long as you don't mind it only running well for a mile and a half

 

It isn't the cost of the tank so much. But if I pull the tank, I might as well replace the float and sending unit, the filler tube, and pick up (if it isn't metal tubing). I reeeeaaaaally don't want to replace a tank and have the fuel gauge die right after. The filler tube I am probably going to do anyway as it shows dry rot cracks at the ends (outside the clamps; no fuel contact there).

I drove her about about 20 miles today. She still has a burble/miss fire especially at idle that I could live with, but I don't want to. My feeling is that since the intensity of the burbles varies, there is still a vacuum leak. I need to replace the throttle shaft and bushings due to wear. I thought about buying a cheap clone carb to donate the shaft, but mine is a factory A/C with overdrive and those are like hen's teeth. One possible solution is a bare shaft with both ends drilled and tapped from QuadrajetParts and get new bushings from Walker, but I am unsure how difficult it will be to remove the old bushings. I was able to reduce the vacuum leaks wrapping the shaft with plumber's Teflon tape. When I first wrapped it a while back, there was a big improvement. But I question the durability and total effectiveness of the band aid.

So, gradually things are getting better. Finally got around to reinstalling the Tupperware, carpet, and all the interior (less the radio) and that was a HUGE morale booster.

 

AutoCorrrect?

Reminds me of the time I was invited to my first (and only) Tupperware party. I didn’t know anything about such an event. I figured you wear a costume to a costume party, right? Turns out you don’t wear Tupperware to a Tupperware party.

Two takeaways from that night:

1) The invitation should have clearly specified this.
2) I wish I hadn’t taken the bus.

 

LOL... No, Not autocorrect. I had a Honda Pacific Coast PC800 I bought with 5000 miles. After a year, she had over 22,000. Here is an example of one like my girl (they are not my pics; sorry for the links)

http://tenwheel.com/imgs/a/a/j/o/m/1...wing_2_lgw.jpg

These bikes were the only model ever produced with a trunk; I could put 3 cases of beer on ice inside. This is a pic of one with the trunk open:

http://loversofmoto.com/wp-content/u...0-PC-800-3.jpg

A month after I bought her, Rover (Red Rover) and I took three weeks meandering from Corpus Christi, TX; through AL; TN; the Virginias, to Columbus, OH (to see the folks) then across Penn, NJ, down the Atlantic coast to North Florida, and back home. Later, we saw Big Bend, the Pained Desert, and much of the Great Plains. Gueissing, in all we probably hit 25-30 states in all before her death. One night coming home work at about 2am, we were at a stop light when a drunk rear ended her. I was heartbroken... and still miss her.

Anyway, all the body panels were plastic and we owners affectionately called it Tupperware. So I was talking about all the rich, Corinthian Pleather in the cab. Perhaps I should start a thread showing how I took the oxidized, sun beaten panels and rejuvenated them restoring the luster and suppleness of real, cage-free pleather.

P.S. If you haven't noticed, I do tend to anthropomorphize the machines in which I feel the 'souls' of their creators. There was Rover, now Maggie* (my truck), and long ago I flew The Beast: a cargo Cessna Caravan 208. Here is one of the gals I flew in all her sooty glory:
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Mid-...ravan-I/484689

Oh, and I must not forget my Swedish Blender:
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Cont...b-340B/1473834

* Maggie was named after Nurse Lt. Maggie Hanes from In Harms Way. I figure if Patricia Neal could take care of The Duke, Maggie could take care of me.
https://i0.wp.com/farm8.staticflickr...a2c207bd5e.jpg

 

I don't see why you could not get a clone carb and if it doesn't fit, use it for parts. Worst case is you would have to drill and modify the clone shaft and arm to be able to fit your application like you were going to do with the universal shaft you were going to buy. I am thinking you could use the whole bottom throttle body of the clone, butterfly and all, and just have to change out or modify the throttle arm. That is if rest of the carb would not work, there is a possibility it would work as well.

 

The QuadrajetParts shaft is pre-drilled and tapped https://quadrajetparts.com/carter-th...le-p-1177.html . I don't want to drill the myself because I have no lathe. I do have a little, table top drill press, but am unsure how to clamp the shaft perpendicular and through the press's table. The thing I must do is grind off the mushroom head that locks the high speed cam and throttle arm in place. I need to use the current throttle arm because it has the AOD connection opposite the throttle ball joint connector.

Never mind all that. I take the arm from the current shaft, remove it, drill a couple of holes through it and the arm of the clone, bolt them together, and Bob's your uncle! Nearly instant overdrive connector.

Edit: just ordered an open-box clone for 51 bucks to my door!