Howdy Pappy,

No, that’s not what I said at all.. read my post again, and take it in as a whole. Don’t simply cherry-pick and amplify one statement as if it constitutes the sole, salient point of the complete comment. I basically stated that the common ingredient in so very many successful carburetor "rebuilds" was and is, in fact, the requisite detailed disassembly, cleaning, re-assembly and adjustment.

Do you still challenge that basic statement?

Alcohol in fuels has been a "problem" since the early 1980s, so there’s no reason to automatically determine that a carb from that era would be completely susceptible to damage. I used the scare quotes around problem in the previous sentence, to emphasize the fact that in all of my experience cleaning, repairing & rebuilding older carbs, the number I’ve seen genuinely damaged by alcohol-tainted fuels could be counted on one hand.

The total number of samples, by the way, would approach 1,000 as of this writing. Their range of manufacture would span from the mid-late 1930s through the early 1990s, with the bulk falling in the 1970-1985 range.

You’re painting with a broad brush here, and again, I must disagree with you. What ever happened to "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!"? Why on earth would you ‘shotgun’ any piece of equipment – I don’t care if it’s a double-hung window, an old carburetor or a piece of vintage electronics – without first doing a proper and workmanlike disassembly and inspection? That’s just lazy, and wasteful of resources.

Why? You already know that the bulk of my mechanical experience lies in motorcycles, small engines, industrial engines and domestic cars & trucks. Despite the fact that I hold a vocational "Motorcycle and Marine Technician" cert, my OBM experience is rather limited, though I’m picking up the idiosyncrasies every day.

This time I can’t see any reason to disagree. What a relief for both of us, lol.