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Old 03-16-2007, 01:11 PM
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Default Float material???

Terry - this sounds very familiar!

What material are your floats? Are they the old brass cans, or are they the foam composite material as shown in a photo on this thread? If they are the plastic/foam/composite type, they may be going "soggy" on you, losing buoyancy and causing a super-rich stumble.

Some of the foam composite floats that Carter used in the 1980's got a reputation for this. Over time, the gasoline & various additives attack the material, soak into it, and make the floats heavy. One of the first indications in many Dodge trucks & Jeeps with the Carter BBD 2-barrel carb was a flooding-induced stall during hard turns (I think it was left turns on that model carb).

Just a thought!
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