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Old August 18th, 2012, 2:14 PM
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Can you find a more specific location where the noise is comming from?
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I know its coming from the carb but I can't really pinpoint it.
All of the vacuum lines are intact and are not leaking, I sprayed for leaks there also
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What position is the choke plate, and either open or closed do you still have the noise?
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When I was out there spraying, the choke was about half open and I could still hear it.
I'll go back out in a couple hours and see if theirs a difference between choke full closed to full open.
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Originally Posted by clintsy
When I was out there spraying, the choke was about half open and I could still hear it.
I'll go back out in a couple hours and see if theirs a difference between choke full closed to full open.
The only thing common between the two carbs is the electric choke, might not be that, but?
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Could be, the choke was originally a hot air choke but I switched the whole assembly during the rebuild and put an electric housing on.
I can't think of anything else except the throttle shaft might be loose, but I'll check.

Thanks for the help
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Ok so I found out that the throttle shaft needs bushings, I was sitting in the car and I I just set my foot on the gas, not giving it gas just tensioned the accelerator cable because theirs a tiny bit of slack and the whistle stopped while it was tensioned and whistled again when I took my foot off. That also explains why it was the same on both carbs, the 86 (new 1) had a pretty marked up throttle plate and had olds throttle linkage so I kept the 83's (old 1) throttle plate with the Chevy linkage, after making sure it would work of course.
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Oil that smells like gas !!!! This happened to me and it was a ruptured diaphragm in the fuel pump, leaking fuel into the block. Disregard this message if your using an electric fuel pump.
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Originally Posted by stop the rust
Oil that smells like gas !!!! This happened to me and it was a ruptured diaphragm in the fuel pump, leaking fuel into the block. Disregard this message if your using an electric fuel pump.
I actually fixed that problem I had, sorry I forgot to post there when I fixed it.
The needle and seat assembly was messed up on the carb not allowing the needle to seat all of the way. That's why I switched to the 86 qjet I found in the back of my garage

I just doubted the fuel pumps diaphram ruptured already because I replaced it this year in January.
But thanks for your input
Its always appreciated
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