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From: South central, Minnesota
The only issue I ever had with any Edelbrock carbs is I bought a truck that had one and it had a throttle shaft that liked to stick once in a while. But return spring added to the throttle linkage took care of that. I actually prefer the Edelbrock over the Holley carbs. Every Holley I've owned liked to leak gas from the fuel bowls.
And I prefer to run a little gas in my alcohol!
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From: Moro Bay, AR
I'm with you on this one, every Holley that I ever owned ate power valves or leaked.
I replaced the last Holley with a Edelbrock 1407 that required no tuning straight out of the box and ran it for over 50K miles with no problems at all.
Now back to our regular programming
I replaced the last Holley with a Edelbrock 1407 that required no tuning straight out of the box and ran it for over 50K miles with no problems at all.Now back to our regular programming
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From: Poway, Ca.
If you have ever owned a vehicle produced by "Brand X" and had to rebuild or service a "Quadrajet" you would always be glad to have a Carter/Edelbrock carb now.
I do love mine, but it does have some "personality" (like bowl slosh spitting in tight turns) and the gas drain back after sitting for days.
I do love mine, but it does have some "personality" (like bowl slosh spitting in tight turns) and the gas drain back after sitting for days.
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From: springfield il
holleys are freaking junk !!!!!! the 52's ate the power valve { an old 94 but a rebuild } and it'll start right up when cold but run it then park it the fuel drains into the motor through the pv and you get an ultra cranky pain in the **** too start !!!!!!!!!! every holley i've had /owned or drove in the last ten years has been crap !!!!!!!!!!! edelbrocks are soso to me . julie i have never had an issue with a q-jet if they are proerly maintained and you know what to look for when rebuilding them . and ford used them too . i know of a few cobra jet torino's of 70 vintage that came out the factory door , and i have seen a few rochester carbs on older fords that were untouched . now the electronic q-jets were a freaking pain ..................... really though what options do we have .... the predator carbs which were sold so long ago , were the first intelligent design and attempt at building a user freindly carb , and they went the way of the do do bird as none could grasp the concepts they were using .
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From: Rio Rancho, NM
As a teen a ran Holleys on everything. I've had some good ones and some bad ones...mostly bad ones. It seems like one you develop a problem with one then you're stuck with it. If you have a drag car and you are constantly opening the thing up to make changes then its no big deal but for a daily driver...no thanks. If you're running a Holley on a $WD truck or boat you'll want to "tweak" the vent tubes to prevent "sloshing" out of them in rough conditions.
If I was just running a mild engine and I wanted great reliability I'd opt for Ford's old Motorcraft 2 barrel that they put on everything. Great carb!
I like the Edelbrock carbs and have had good luck with them straight out of the box. Occasionally you might get an application where you have to tune one but they are great carbs.
The quadrajet. I like it! Great dependable carbs. Usually when you find someone bad mouthing one its because they had no clue how its supposed to work and they tried to adjust it...LOL
Best way to prime a carb is to get small squirt bottle and dribble gas down into the bowl vent to fill the bowl.
Bobby
If I was just running a mild engine and I wanted great reliability I'd opt for Ford's old Motorcraft 2 barrel that they put on everything. Great carb!
I like the Edelbrock carbs and have had good luck with them straight out of the box. Occasionally you might get an application where you have to tune one but they are great carbs.
The quadrajet. I like it! Great dependable carbs. Usually when you find someone bad mouthing one its because they had no clue how its supposed to work and they tried to adjust it...LOL
Best way to prime a carb is to get small squirt bottle and dribble gas down into the bowl vent to fill the bowl.
Bobby
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From: Sterling, Virginia
Guess it wasn't such a stupid question after all !! Yes AX I have looked down the carb etc. Julie, thanks for you advice about letting it crank a couple of times. Yes, I do pump the pedal a couple of times and pull the choke and it does start after the second or third try. Maybe I'm making too big a deal out of it. Thanks to everyone for their 2 cents.
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Yes, if it squirts the float bowl is not dry. Normal starting procedure for a carbed engine with automatic choke is to press the gas pedal to the floor rapidly, release somewhat slowly (this primes the engine and sets the choke) then press the pedal about 1/8 the way down, hold it there and crank the engine to start. Don't expect it to start up as quickly as a modern EFI engine, but it should start in the time it takes to say Rraah, rraah, rraah, rraah! (cranking sound) out loud.
out loud.
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