Thread: edelbrock carb-worth rebuilding?

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[QUOTE=C9xI offered him $50. per each reasonably new Edel carb and I'd pay the shipping.

Kinda strange though, I haven't heard back.

Maybe I should be waiting by the mailbox just in case....[/QUOTE]




Just a commentary about what I learned while touring E'brock last month. They had a huge bin filled with returned carbs, and talked freely about it being typical of any given day there. They and their primary vendors (Summit & Jegs) have what would likely be called a liberal return policy, pretty much no questions asked. They have a realistic looking/sounding reinspection procedure wherein they find about 3/4 of the returned carbs are without problems, in other words within spec, no parts missing, and so on. Reasons speculated were all over the board, but based just on what we can read here it's likely that folks who don't understand carb tuning are labeling the carb faulty without knowing how to set one up. It's probably due to the belief that a generic carb (relatively) should be a bolt on and go situation.

I'd be willing to bet Holley has one of these bins too, with similar results.