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Nate Stanley · #16 04-09-2002, 07:10 PM

I used to be heavily into Chevrolet Corvairs. Lots of oopses here, but the best one was--

I needed to rebuild both carbs. Took off carbs, stuffed paper towels into the intake ports.

Rebuilt carbs, put them back on at night, started the engine- heard a very muffled poofing sound in all 6 combustion chambers, and watched burning bits of paper fly out of the exhaust. No permanant damage, but I sure felt stupid.

I once rebuilt a Carter Thermoquad on my '79 Cordoba- (at night again, see the common thread here? )

two fuel check valves fell out of the carb upon reassembly. making the carburetor more like a toilet.

Something was fishy when the car started IMMEDIATELY. Engine went to fast idle, then nearly WOT. Looked at the cat convertor, saw it was red hot trying to process all that raw gasoline....

I'm sure there's more, but those came to mind first.

Happy Wrenching,
Nate

Nate