My Offy Intake & Reds Headers Transplant

[Mark D]

Headed down to the garage last night to clear my mind of the days drudgery. Opened the hood of the car and stared at the carbs for a few minutes and decided that since I hadnt had time to call George about my stripped threads that I would at least fool around with the linkage geometry. As I started digging for my tools I noticed a bag of old carb parts and remembered that I had an old fuel bowl in there. After some clean-up and examination I realized this was a bowl that had a stripped cap thread on the side opposite the fuel fill. I came up with a bolt and nut that was able to act in place of the cap screw, so I tour down the number two carb (rear) and rebuilt it with the Asche internal parts.

Delighted to report that after a couple hours of pleasant distraction, I reinstalled the carb, inserted the key, hit the starter and after the fuel bowl filled she fired right up! After she warmed up I drove her around the parking lot a bit. Seemed to run good, but the idle is still a little high and the draft on the back carb is still slightly higher than the front carb. Also noticed a funny feel in the gas pedal. Thought it might be related to the new linkage geometry, but after I chasing it from joint to joint, I found that the rubber pedal connection point had broken. Super glued that back together for the time being and secured it with a tie-wrap until I can score a replacement.

So here she is running about 3 minutes after I started her up with the rebuilt rear carb.

Now all I have to do is fiddle with the air cleaners to get them installed. The necks of the carbs are a smaller diameter than the air cleaners I bought. After that I'm gonna replace the mufflers with the thrushes that arrived last week. Then all will be right with the world again. Thanks to everyone who posted and gave me pointers and advice.

[Don Coatney]

Super glue is super. I also used super glue to repair the ball socket in my foot feed pedal. That was about 10 years ago and it is still holding well.

 

I recall I had to replace the original throttle return spring with a heavier one to correct my high idle problem. That also was about 10 years ago and still working well.

[steveplym]

Yeah I have the same problem Mark with that setup.  I can lightly pull back on the accelerator pedal and get it to idle back down.

Probably going to take Don's advice and put on a heavier return spring as well.

[Mark D]

Took her for a run today... Ran great til I ran out of gas... AAA brought me home on a flatbed.

[steveplym]

Car sounds great Mark.  Too bad you had to be towed home. 

[Mark D]

Thanks Steve, Embarrassingly enough I ran out of gas! All the fiddling during the winter burnt what I had left in the tank. I was so excited to get her out I neglected to notice she fell below a quarter tank which in my car = empty.

[Randy L Peterson]

I have that same Exact Gas gauge in my 46.. LOL   Only took my 3 times running out of fuel to figure that out..  Sounds NICE....

RLP

[thrashingcows]

Looking good, and sounding good.  Congrats on getting up back on the road.

[Big Swede]

Digging up this old thread full of good info! Thanks!

[Mark D]

Nice to see old memories resurected and helping someone else out! 

[Andydodge]

Yep, I agree, just read it from the start........Hows the car going Mark.........and more importantly.........how are you?.....lol.....regards, Andyd

[Mark D]

Hey Andy - car still runs great as am I! Thanks for asking.

[CoronetGuy]

That was a fun read. I gotta get some smithys on my car. These straight pipes are a tad loud, haha