Tool's for rebuild?
05-09-2008, 04:54 AM
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Car: 1986 Trans Am
Engine: 350 4BBL
Transmission: T5
Axle/Gears: 3.70
Tool's for rebuild?
Gonna attempt to rebuild my carb this weekand on my own, is there any special tool I should get to make the job easier or will just common tool's do the job?
05-09-2008, 12:00 PM
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Car: 1982 Trans-Am
Engine: 355 w/ ported 416s
Transmission: T10, hurst shifter
Axle/Gears: 10 bolt, true-trac, 3.73
Re: Tool's for rebuild?
Stock q-jet right?
Make sure you have the torx bits. T8 and T15 and T20 to be specific.
Make sure you have a small flat blade screwdriver bit, like eyeglass repair size.
You'll need a small allen key, maybe 1/8" or so. The last two I mentioned there are for adjusting the air valve tension.
Grab the "carburetor adjusting tool" from Napa, $11 or so. You'll use the "double D" bit on that for adjusting your idle mixture (if it's a non-cc model, probably won't need it if it's a CC model).
carb dip, can of compressed air... Maybe digital calipers to measure your power piston height....
Wide flat blade screwdriver, to remove the jets. Gotta be the widest one you have.
A 1/8" pin punch is handy for removing the acc pump linkage, although I rigged up a bent nail to do the trick...
Make sure you have the torx bits. T8 and T15 and T20 to be specific.
Make sure you have a small flat blade screwdriver bit, like eyeglass repair size.
You'll need a small allen key, maybe 1/8" or so. The last two I mentioned there are for adjusting the air valve tension.
Grab the "carburetor adjusting tool" from Napa, $11 or so. You'll use the "double D" bit on that for adjusting your idle mixture (if it's a non-cc model, probably won't need it if it's a CC model).
carb dip, can of compressed air... Maybe digital calipers to measure your power piston height....
Wide flat blade screwdriver, to remove the jets. Gotta be the widest one you have.
A 1/8" pin punch is handy for removing the acc pump linkage, although I rigged up a bent nail to do the trick...
05-09-2008, 01:27 PM
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Car: 2000 SS, M6
Engine: Modified LS1
Transmission: T-56
Axle/Gears: 3.42
Re: Tool's for rebuild?
Awww, you got it all wrong! You forgot the most important tool:
Beer!
Don't forget extra gaskets, and hoses. You might end up splitting hoses
during removal.
Beer!
Don't forget extra gaskets, and hoses. You might end up splitting hoses
during removal.
05-12-2008, 12:23 PM
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Car: 82 Berlinetta/57 Bel Air
Engine: LS1/LQ4
Transmission: 4L60E/4L80E
Axle/Gears: 12B-3.73/9"-3.89
Pretty much standard tools - 1" combo wrench and feeler gage is about as complicated as it gets.
Ditto the dip-type carb cleaner & compressed air. If you don't have access to an air compressor, the spray can carb cleaner with the nozzle tube can be used to blow out passages after soaking.
Ditto the dip-type carb cleaner & compressed air. If you don't have access to an air compressor, the spray can carb cleaner with the nozzle tube can be used to blow out passages after soaking.
05-12-2008, 12:30 PM
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Car: 1982 Trans-Am
Engine: 355 w/ ported 416s
Transmission: T10, hurst shifter
Axle/Gears: 10 bolt, true-trac, 3.73
Re: Tool's for rebuild?
OH! Then forget everything I wrote.
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