[V8Vairs] New Car & Questions

[NicolCS at aol.com]

Oh, one other thing to mention about the QJ carb:  If you seem to have an 
unusually rich mixture or the carb leaks down after parking, (long crank time) 
check for leaking secondary well plugs.  Back in the day (I was a Chevy parts 
man in the 70s) we had two aftermarket kits that the tune-up guys installed in 
every QJ they overhauled.  Kit #1 was a set of brass plugs with o-rings that 
went in place of the factory soft-metal plugs.  These puppies were a little 
bigger than 1/4" diameter.  Kit #2 was a 1/4" thick high-density foam block, 
roughly triangular, that went into the casting cavity over the first kit. Each of 
these kits were supposed to stop the fuel from leaking out of the float bowl 
and into the intake.  The tune-up guys installed both of them to guarantee a 
leak-free bowl.
C. Nicol