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Carb
I have a 1982 302 motor in my ford truck with the origional motorcraft 2 barrel carb and I want to put a four barrel carb on it I got a ford aluminium intake and am looking at a local junkyard to buy a Holley 4 barrel with vacume secondaries. The previous owner pluged all the hoses on my 2 barrel carb on my truck now except the hose to the distributer and the fuel line. If I put the holley carb on my motor would the vacume secondaries open as they should or would it need more than just the hose to the distributer for it to work?
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The vacuum secondaries work on a signal from inside the carb, no need for you to worry about that.
I would worry about getting a junkyard carb. If you feel confident on rebuilding it, then go ahead, but if you want to just stick it on and expect it to run right, I doubt that is going to happen. If you don't want to mess with it, get a new one from Summit racing or Jegs, or believe Jegs also sells factory rebuilt carbs at a discount.
The alcohol the use in the fuel now eats up the rubber parts in the carbs. Some of the rebuild kits now use different rubber parts to help prevent this, but an old carb sitting around in the junkyard is going to be in sad shape.
I would worry about getting a junkyard carb. If you feel confident on rebuilding it, then go ahead, but if you want to just stick it on and expect it to run right, I doubt that is going to happen. If you don't want to mess with it, get a new one from Summit racing or Jegs, or believe Jegs also sells factory rebuilt carbs at a discount.
The alcohol the use in the fuel now eats up the rubber parts in the carbs. Some of the rebuild kits now use different rubber parts to help prevent this, but an old carb sitting around in the junkyard is going to be in sad shape.
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I know of a guy with a pretty much brand new Edlebrock 500cfm carb that he would sell me but when it was on his truck it kept flooding at stop lights and he wouldnt be able to get his truck started again for awhile is there another cause of this other than the float because he checked the float and it was adjusted right he said he would fix it and sell that to me. Would that be better and easier to put on my truck and get it running?
