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Old Jan 7, 2007 | 07:58 PM
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I had posted earlier that I was going to attemp the rebuild myself. With the help of some and the key part numbers from Lars, the rebuild is successful.

I fired the car up today and she runs beatifully. I had so many problems with the carb berfore the rebuild and now I can say that the quadrajet is operating perfectly.

Keep up the carb tips, the are very helpful to us novices!!

Thanks to all that helped.

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Old Jan 7, 2007 | 10:53 PM
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Great news to hear. .....forced into doing mine this weekend....all buttoned up and ready to reinstall tomorrow....I probably took way longer...since I had to read (for the 3rd time) my Qjet book......just to be sure I did not mis anything.

Did you use the needle clip that attaches to float.?
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Old Jan 8, 2007 | 07:31 AM
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Great news to hear. .....forced into doing mine this weekend....all buttoned up and ready to reinstall tomorrow....I probably took way longer...since I had to read (for the 3rd time) my Qjet book......just to be sure I did not mis anything.

Did you use the needle clip that attaches to float.?
Don't worry, mine took some time too. I used the Quadrjet book by Doug Roe, which helped me out tremendously. I don't recall a needle clip attaching to the float. Mine carb # is 7042202. The float set inside the bowl and the needle for the fuel inlet just set over the end. Is this what you are referring too?

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Yep, I used Doug Roe's book and mine turned out great.
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Congrats, I have rebuilt 4 Q-jets so far. Could not have done it with out Lars help and Doug Roe's book on q Jets.
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