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Would you recommend a place to send the carbs to get redone or do you think this could be handled by a lowely weekend wrencher like myself.
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Hah, "You can do eet!" It's not really difficult to do, but you need a big space to spread everything out where it can't be disturbed and need to be meticulous with all the little bits n' pieces. For the most part nothing will fit where it doesn't belong, with a few exceptions. It helps to have a basic knowlege of how a carb works but it's not really necessary if you trust yourself to put everything back where it goes. It's handy to have a bunch of little trays or baggies or something and document where every screw and washer goes. It's kinda like a big puzzle, if you've ever taken a clock apart you're way ahead of the game. Don't force any of the screws or attachments, be gentle with it. You want to remove all the plastic parts and dip only the metal.
You'll need an assortment of different sized flatheads, a carb cleaner dipping bucket which you can get at autozone or any other parts store, a can or two of carb spray and some thick chemical gloves and of course a couple of decent carb kits.
Another great reason for doing it yourself is that you will have an intimate knowledge of what exactly goes on in there and this is invaluable in tuning and troubleshooting what can go wrong down the line. You could end up paying techs many thousands of dollars along the way for diagnosing something that you would know about before even opening the things up!
Once you get them back together you'll need a unisyn and adaptor (cool whip container?) to balance them and some info on initial adjustments. There are plenty of other threads here about rebuilding Zeniths which explain some of the trickier things which you hopefully won't have to deal with, i.e. warping, vac leaks, etc, ya might want to check them out.