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I need to rebuild my edlebrock 600 cfm carb, but I dont know how to get it off my 350. Can anyone help????

Just incase your serious, take off the 4 nuts holding the carb on your intake manifold, disconnect your throttle linkeage, disconnect your fuel line, take off your pvc valve line off your carb and lift the carb off the manifold.

Originally posted by Rob3829
I need to rebuild my edlebrock 600 cfm carb, but I dont know how to get it off my 350. Can anyone help????

I am not trying to be rude but if you can't figure out how to get the carb. off then you really have no business trying to repair it.Better let a pro repair it.

Thanks for the help!! I have done many things to my truck but I have never messed with a carb. A pro is going to rebuild it. i just didn't want to go at it blind. I can make a thousands of dollars in a day, but I'll be damned if I can take off a carb.

thanks again

I love it.
The reality, if you are going to clean your carb, the rebuild kit has directions.
A long time ago, I was told my automobile needed a carb rebuild. Forging ahead, I proceded to remove the carb, break some screws, and crack the bowl. I was 16, and it was my first automobile, a cherry 1938 Pontiac 2 door, straight 8.
If this is really your first time rebuilding a carb. Give yourself plenty of room. You will want to lay out the parts just like the rebuild sheets show. The main thing is clean, orderly, no brainstorms. Methodical. Take a magic marker, and put dots on vaccum lines, and an awl and put the same mark on the metal where the port is.
I like to use carb cleaner and clean out the ports, jet holes, and any varnish build up on the bottom of the bowl. Those Jiffy kits are good, but they are not thorough. Use the little cardboard pieces to check the float height, it is important. I also use a lot of Q-tips to just scrub the corners of the bowl.
Use caution screwing in the jets, and bowl screws. Use the proper blade screwdriver. If neccesary get a torque wrench that works in inch pounds. Carb bases can crack. Do not be afraid of it, man made it, man can fix it. If not the first time, better all the time.
Removing the carb is simple. Just mark the cables, and lines so you know where they go when it is rebuilt. If you lose track, which I have done many times, Edelbrock has on their site the owners manual. It also has the rebuild manual.
Try it yourself first. If it doesn't come out right, bring it to the pro. Worst thing that will happen is you might need a new carb. Even if it happens, you will know much more than you do right now, and that is what it is all about.
There is nothing there you cannot replace if neccessary, and, unless you drop something down the manifold, you probably won't hurt anything critical.
The attachment nuts are 1/2". There are four. The cable comes right off, and the vaccum lines slip off. I usually cut off the last 1/2 inch when I replace the hoses. If you screw in the aircleaner cover screw, the top won't fit and you will have to back it out untill it does fit. The PCV valve comes off with the aircleaner, the aircleaner ring just pops off, and there is a gasket. Put all that in the aircleaner and put it where it won't get trashed.
When the carb is off, stuff a rag into the manifold plenum. Make sure no dirt, crud, nuts, washers fall into the opening. If you clean the manifold, keep the rag in place, and clean away from it.
You will do ok, if you can make a grand in a day, you can change a carb.
Adjusting the two forward jets... 1 1/2 from bottom. Should be right in the ballpark.
The Edelbrock site also has adjustment procedures.
You can do it.
Also, do not put any gasket goop anywhere on the carb. You should not need it.

Rob 3829. Glad to help, but tell me something, what do you do for a living that makes you $1,000/day?

Originally posted by DennyW
A grand in a day ?

He said: thousands of dollars in a day!!
I think I would just get a reconditioned flow bench tested one to bolt right on.

If he told you then he would have to kill you.I meet one of those guy's on Chicago's south side.I think he said his name was Al.

$1000 a day huh? Why is he even bothering to pull the carb. When you make $365,000.00 you'd think he could afford the extra half hour labor charge to take the carb off. Hell, why screw with that, just throw that sucker in the trash and buy a new one. Oh, do you think it's cuz he wants to save money? Four bolts, some linkage, hummmmmmmmm...........must be a brain surgeon!
If you have to brag about it, your lying!

Originally posted by erik erikson
If he told you then he would have to kill you.I meet one of those guy's on Chicago's south side.I think he said his name was Al.

Nah, the guy I talked to said his name was Pablo, or something like that, and he was a poppy seed importer.

Originally posted by NTFDAY
Nah, the guy I talked to said his name was Pablo, or something like that, and he was a poppy seed importer.

Poppy seeds,that sounds a lot like opium.Are you sure his name was not PEPE?

Originally posted by erik erikson
Poppy seeds,that sounds a lot like opium.Are you sure his name was not PEPE?

Could have been, didn't stay around long enough to find out.

All I can say is that "Its all about the stocks!!!"

It was as easy as you said it was. I feel bad for asking the question now!!! I just wanted to work my truck myself instead of sending it off to someone else like I have done in the past. Its an easy vehicle to work on and i love doing it!! Thanks for the help again. I am going to rebuild it myself first. If that doesnt' work, I'll take it in.