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Join Date: Feb 2001
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You can do them yourself Matty.

Order a pair of rebuild kits (one for each side). Disassemble and rebuild one at a time using the other as a reference. They are very simple, just lay it all out in ordr on some corrugated cardboard so nothing rolls off your bench. Buy about 5 cans of carb cleaner and have access to compressed air (if you can).

Things to watch out for - holes in the floats, play in the shrottle shafts, the 14mm caps over the needle valves can be a complete bastard - be prepared to cut and destroy them to get them off and go with the later 17mm caps. Don't disassemble the shaft rods (if there is scoring in the throats where the butterflies are or play in the shafts, then they will need to be sent away)

I've got quite a few resources on rebuilding these carbies off the net. Wayne's 101 book is excellent and covers this job.

I spent a couple of hundred and bought the weber/zenith float gauge for setting floats and a synchrometer. These are essential and you will always appreciate having them. Where are you - I may consider loaning them to you.

This is a great project and will give you the confidence to take on other things.
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