Thanks for that great info, Cobra Jet! Especially that second doc, the rebuild article with the photos. Very explicit instructions on how the set up the choke, and the idle mixture adjustment. I feel much better about tackling that now.
funny how much things have changed. It's been about 40 yrs now since carbs went away; I bet many mechanics now, the ones under 40, may have never seen a carb let alone worked on one. A carburetor is to automotive now like a typewriter is to word processing.
A little aside; your handle, Cobra Jet reminds me of the Cobrajet 428 engine. When I was 19 I had a 72 Ford Torino 2 dr and it had a Cobrajet 428. It was root beer brown with black accents and a black hood scoop with the "Cobrajet" lettering on the sides. I liked that car and it was a lot of fun; I wish I had it now. But I enlisted in the Army National Guard and had to go off to boot camp and Infantry AIT and had nowhere to store anything so I literally sold off everything of substance that I owned, including the Torino. Had my 20th birthday in boot camp; what a delight...but I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want to get any "attention".
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