CARBs & CVCCs

["Bruce Hevner" <scramblr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>That little CVCC was (and still is) a nifty thing (though that tiny
3-barrel carb was a >nightmare to tune).

I know this doesn't directly pertain to AMC's but I thought it might be of
interest. Speaking of the "3 Barrel" Honda CVCC carb.
I was doing a good bit of CVCC work at my shop in the early 80's and buying
a lot of parts from the local Honda dealer. The parts manager visited me one
day showing me a tech bulletin he had received form Honda. Seems they were
receiving a LOT of CVCC carbs being sent in under warranty. Upon examination
MOST of these carbs just needed a good cleaning and a readjustment of the
float level (higher).
 So Honda was going to offer a seminar on doing "on car" rebuilds of the
CVCC carb. I went along with my technician. That trip paid for itself MANY
times over!! All that was necessary to fix those little critters was a can
of spray carb clean and a rebuild kit. They had a special cleaning procedure
and adjustment of the floats. It was amazing how much better they ran after
this mod!! I know we did at least a hundred of them!! We got $60 plus parts
to do the job, took about an hour.
We did a couple of Weber conversions on them too. MAN would those things
go!!
Just shows to go what you can do if ya just know how!!

Bruce Hevner