Man! I'm really getting tired of Bullitt! Going on a year now and it's back on the shelf again. After spindle conundrums and mount bracing issues, now it's carburetor problems. I'm not going to weld on the pieces of flair and paint until he's successfully completed a reverse burnout.
You may remember I chose a reverse gear tiller motor and the previous troubles I had with it and a
dropped fuel bowl. Well, the JB Weld didn't hold and being a tiller motor, there wasn't a good, responsive throttle attachment point. So in what I thought would be a quick swap I stole the carb and tank off another motor with a
hole in the block.
It wasn't a 1:1 swap. The older motor had a narrower bolt pattern than the newer. So, I made a little adapter that worked great except, I spite of a through soaking in Chemdip, the carby still got some junk in it (which probably came when I drilled out that twisted off screw). And so I decided to give it an even more thorough, by the book, cleaning.
I've never removed "welch plugs" before but the book made it sound like they are 12 for a dollar at any local drugstore. They're not. So, while I wait 2-3 days for delivery, I'm moving on the the Orange Krate for a while.
