Re: holley 1bbl carb trouble

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

There's no adjustment on the 1931. There are a pair of springs to open it 
and it's closed by vacuum. The TSM describes how it works (FWIW, that's 
usually a good section to read before tearing into a carburetor).

Matt

At 10:13 AM 8/16/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> Sounds like a metering rod. It shouldn't be seated in the jet. The rod 
> should either be tapered or stepped. The rod moves up and down into the 
> hole to change the effective size of the jet. Sounds like yours is closing 
> the jet off, or making it to small at the wrong time. The rebuild 
> instructions should have had an adjustment guide for this part. If you 
> can't find it I'll take a look at a TSM, but will need to know the year 
> and model the carb came off of.
>
> On August 16, 2005 Rusty Quarterstaff wrote:
>
> > Hi folks, does anyone have knowledge of the holley model 1931 carb? I 
> put a rebuild kit in mine last night and everything went smooth but now 
> the car jumps off the line then kinda bogs or starves for gas.  one thing 
> that that I did do that could be wrong is when replaceing the accelerator 
> pump diaphram, I noticed on the metering block a rod and spring that 
> pointed into a hole that the main jet entered.  THe rod looked like it 
> was supposed to seat into that hole so I pressed the assembly down 
> further until it did seat..now the car runs like crap.  What does that 
> part do? is it supposed to be seated?  the main jet was a 55 if that 
> matters.  thanks for any input.
> >
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