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Checked out my gas tank today. Put a little gas in the line and ran it back to the tank, then blew a little air in and all was fine. I have installed two inline filters, one before it enters the fuel pump and one before it enters the carb. It appears the caretaker before me had cleaned it or replaced the gas tank, it was spotless. Put in 2 gallons of new gas with a little stabilizer. The original gas gauge at the back works fine.
My repaired carb came in to today from Chipper. I had one more hole to patch in the fuel pump and applied epoxy today. Tomorrow I will put the carb on, fuel pump on and check it out. Too hot here to work long, so may be a day or to before I am through.

After replacing some incorrect parts the carburetor ran well on my '28 test engine. Should run better that before.

TY..Chipper

When you run it in the next couple of days it will verify if I did a good job. I rebuild carburetors, vacuum tanks, etc. so we can have many old Chevys on the road. Would like to train someone to take my place.

Just sent one out today that had me buffaloed. Was a '28 that idled okay but then nothing when throttle opened. I usually don't take them totally apart as the venturi does not survive and sometimes neither does the standpipe. In trying to minimize the cost don't take them out. Finally found the problem. Some critter had plugged the four vent holes in the base of the standpipe with dirt. Had to make a tool to clean out the holes. When test run it performed like it should. Learn something everyday.