| no ,— never !!!! they wrecked a WCFB carb on me , instead of rebushiing a worn throttle shaft ( standard fare , tool is on ebay in fact ) they wrapped the old shaft to fill the wear gap with very thin brass shim stock - it worked its way out into the throttle bore , vacuum pulls it . hung up throttles near / off idle stop intermittently . caused advance slot not to be right, idle varying due to carb being wrong and the carb slot impact on advance — when not supposed to be advanced at all at idle — total disaster , Difficult to find with advance aspect going on at same time , changing the idle — carb on and off 3 times . Popping back off idle too . total halfazz way to do anything . Moron idea . forget anyplace that would do this and charge you full boat too . Was not like that there 20 years back . Use quad shop , but that can be really slow . I ended up rebuilding that wcfb myself . I bought the tool and bushings about 40$ You can do better than some kid at a bench Good kits from Mikes carb parts . There is nothing magic about rebuilding a carb that is not corroded . A few crucial things on carb rebuild , float level is surprisingly critical , and if any error better high fuel than low , as alcohol gas needs stronger AF ratio , and stock they are all tuned lean for the old leaded gas , they tend to run really lean now on alcohol due mpg tune done back then . That leads to stumble off idle , and it is not accell pump squirt despite what armchair critics think . Not that simple . But be sure accell pump check valves and balls are free and pump leather soft, if leather . On ram carbs the mix adj needles often have wear rings on them after years of playing , a step forms . Then it is an on off action no real adjustment . Very fortunately new edelbrock needles fit slightjy better , bigger you get your ram mixture adjustment back . On the car you can change these , inspect carefully and ring shape wear get new ones . And on afb be sure upper check needle at squirter is clean and free , they stick left sitting ..a white crud forms . Last you can mix up afb venturi R and L and gaskets too or flipped over venturi gaskets . I found this in a “rebuilt “ . look very carefully at drawings and how old one was too — compare holes . it is confusing— easily goes together wrong . —- For anyone doing it . just sayin .. Sent from my iPhone not by choice
Personally, I would forget the 'local carburetor guy' and send them to Daytona Carburetor. They did a great job on my Desoto's WCFB.
Ron
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