Quadrajet Carb Leaking?
I bought a remanufactured Q-Jet for my motorhome when I put the "new" engine in. Let me first say that it runs awesome. Plenty of power, no stumbling, smooth idle. When it's warm anyway. The choke ope...
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Actually the arrow is pointing to the secondary needles that are used only at near full throttle. Primary needles are inside center near the float and vacuum piston operated. Fuel leakage into the secondary well was quite common on early models and corrected on the later ones.
The fix is to disassemble the main bowel from the base and epoxy the fuel well seams. They are "staked" into place at the factory but they sometimes leaked.
You had to put a bead of epoxy on the folder over staked, circular area that leaked. They used to sell a repair kit with a triangular shaped foam pad thing that was supposed to help with the problem but epoxy was the real cure.
The fix is to disassemble the main bowel from the base and epoxy the fuel well seams. They are "staked" into place at the factory but they sometimes leaked.
You had to put a bead of epoxy on the folder over staked, circular area that leaked. They used to sell a repair kit with a triangular shaped foam pad thing that was supposed to help with the problem but epoxy was the real cure.
