Cascade Crew

[aaron_sK]

Very fine, dense, sediment-type stuff. It's metallic and sort of red-oxidized. What throws me is that everything was cleaned out last summer: the carb was rebuilt, the tank was pulled and cleaned at a local rad shop, the pump is brand new, and I've always run it with a filter. Should I just clean it out and go, or is there something I should be checking here?

[blue89]

It looks like rust? Where is your filter?

[aaron_sK]

Between the pump and the regulator.

[blue89]

Is it in both bowls?

[aaron_sK]

Haven't pull the secondary bowl yet. I only pulled the primary to up the jet sizes. It's lean-surging bad on the freeway.

[blue89]

If it's in both then it should be in the lines. But I guess that's hard to tell since the secondaries go though so little fuel.

[aaron_sK]

Popped the secondary off just now. There's quite a bit in it, but not as much as the primaries. Now that it's had a chance to dry out a bit, the stuff is actually pretty light, and seems to blow out pretty easily with a little compressed air.

For now I think I'll just clean it out and roll with it.

[Twilightoptics]

Has it been running? Did you recently rebuild it or just bolt it on and go?

'Looks pretty normal for a carb that's sat.

[aaron_sK]

When I bought the car that carb was sitting in the trunk. I took it to a shop and had it rebuilt when I dropped the new engine into it last Fall. I had the tank cleaned at the same time, and replaced all the soft line. The hardline under the car was the only thing I didn't clean or replace, which might have been the problem.

It's been running on the new engine since I broke it in, so it must not have been bad enough to affect flow.

[Quasi-Traction]

did you clean the chassis fuel lines touroughly? My first fairlane seized the stock float needle because of rust collection in the float bowl. Took a mechanic to find. I had no idea at the time that kind of thing could happen.

[rjmcgee]