Re: 37 Packard V12 2/4

Posted by Joe Santana On 2024/6/26 16:03:40

Just to say that after installing a freshly rebuilt carburetor, the car ran fine at idle, and would run fine on the flat. As soon as we put the pedal down a bit to go uphill, it sputtered out. So we went on a fuel line and electrical Easter Egg hunt, since it could NOT be the carb, just rebuilt by one of the foremost rebuilders. But guess what, everyone makes a mistake now and then. We spent days chasing this down (The Duchess Project in and around Post #75 to relive the pain trying to solve this. Unfortunately the videos were deleted.) The solution was simple. The floats were incorrectly set as determined by the rebuilder after returning it for warranty work. We decided to send the carb back after we replaced the rebuilt carb with an old beat up carb that had never been rebuilt and the car ran just fine.