Re: CARBs & CVCCs

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This was standard with most of the "nightmare" cars that scared small shops in the 80's
if you took the time to learn the specific problems these cars had you could make a small fortune working on cars the local shops wouldn't touch! I worked at AMC Renault dealerships and the GM techs wouldn't touch an Alliance with a 10' pole, But one other tech and myself worked on them all day long. It got to the point we would smile when they rolled in the door!
 You could usually count on a Crank sensor or timing belt for a no start. Brakes ETC;
Head gaskets on 1.4's, Piece of cake as long as you sheared the head when removeing. I did lots of those and never ever replace liners or seals.
Mark Price
mpriceAtwestco.net
Morgantown, WV
69 AMC rambler, 4.0L, EFI, 5 speed 
65 Ambassador Conv, 327 AUTO, Basketcase
65 Ambassador 990H flood victim parts car!
01 S-10 CREWCRAP 4X4



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From: "Bruce Hevner" <scramblr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:19:34 -0400

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