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66 Polara w/ 318. Rebuilt my Stromberg WW 3-259 but the throttle shaft is leaking pretty bad, I can't seem to get the idle under 1000 RPM. Rather thank re-bush I'm just gonna go with a remanufactured carb. I can go with either the Stromberg or the Carter. Which one should I go with? I...

66 Polara w/ 318 Stromberg WW 3-259, fresh rebuild on the carb. Starts and idles great, when I give it gas revs up smooth and powerful. When I let off motor stumbles and shakes for about 5-10 seconds then dies. Is this a rich condition? I figured I'd lean each side a quarter turn to see if...

why not just buy the 1.5" bolts, grind down to length, and chase the thread with a die?

66, I already cleaned it up. passages are blown out and good, just waiting on the rebuild kit to come in. from what I read these carbs are notorious for gumming up around the jets and in the tubes. I wanna do it once and do it right as opposed to tearing it apart 2 or 3 times. Ordered the tool...

yeah i'm gonna run it... who's got a decent one that won't break the first time out?

1966 polara 318 motor, Pulled the carb off and am in the process of cleaning it out. My question is: If you hold the two main jets up to a light should you be able to see thru them? I can blow compressed air thru them and get a very light stream. but when I hold them the main body assembly up to...

So It wont damage the seal pulling it off the new piston and slipping it on the old one?

here is a pic of the car this is the exact style of MC I have, no booster. The rebuild kitbought off Ebay, I'm wondering if I ordered the wrong one. This is the push rod assembly. I am trying to remove the piston from the pushrod. like I said the FSM say not to remove the piston. I guess I...

Mike, I have the manual MC with no booster. thanks for the pic. Ebay special $17, I ordered the only one I found. I'm thinking it's for a booster set up... your talking about the boot on the pushrod right? that's getting re-used so it's staying on. It's been separated since before I...

thanks. I will post some pics tonight when I get home.

Hi all, new member from CT. Any tricks to separating the brake pedal pushrod from the MC piston? It's obviously a press fit onto the ball end of the PR... I figure just manhandle it and pull it apart, maybe heat up the piston a bit to expand it. I searched the forum first and nothing about it...

just picked up a 66 Polara in good shape. been building vintage Harleys for a few years and figured I'd step my game up to a full size old school Detroit dinosaur.