Tech question

I'm having trouble with my carb. I have a single barrel Holley I have rebuilt these carbs several times and I have never had this problem the carb is on the car and the carb is shooting the gas out backwards. I have taken it apart to
Make sure the accelerator pump is In correctly and the problem is still there any suggestion

 

So what you're sayin' is that "you're gasbackwards"!

Sorry man I couldn't resist.

But I really don't understand what you mean by "backwards"?

 

Haha I don't blame you. Whats happenig is that the gas is coming out when the carb linkage returns rather than it coming out when you hit the gas pedal. I hope that helps a bit

 

So the gas is coming out when the plates are closing? That sounds like you have some linkage on in reverse.

 

I was thinking the samething but it seems like there is 1 way for the linkage to go

 

nope linkage is on sdarwkcab. trust me it can and will go the other way.

 

Da tinman im going to try and look at it again. Its on a 59 edsel with a 223 inline 6 im going to try and flip it the other way. Ill let you guys know what happends

 

Ok got the linkage to work properly. Now I just got to get it to idle. I took over somone sea headache on this 1 I just want to drive the darn thing

 

Rev up the engine and close the choke plate with your fingers....before it floods and dies, let off the choke plate and rev it up again . do this a few times, That will pull a ton of gas thru the idle circuit and run all the **** thru and it may idle after that.

 

Does anyone have a pic of the linkage of an edsel with a 223 inline 6 in it

 

58 edsel I have tried that already it still didnt idle

 

Vaccuum leaks? Base gasket on carb leak?

 

My Dad always told us ,

"Carburetor is a French word that means 'Leave it the **** alone'"

 

Haha ok you guys ready to laugh? I got it to work. The guys I bought it from put the damn accelerator pump lever backwards