Re: CARBs & CVCCs

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: A number of years ago, I worked for Dr Honda and when one of those came 
in, he would crosswire 2 of the plugs at the dist cap when the customer was 
out of sight. ("You come back in 3 hours it will be fixed. Lifetime 
guarantee!") With the air cleaner lid off, he'd start it up and the 
resultant backfire would clean the jets out in about 10 seconds. Customer 
comes back and it was "$300 please!"


From: "Bruce Hevner" <scramblr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC AMC" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: CARBs & CVCCs
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).

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