I recently went thru an AFB rebuilding spree and ended up with 3 rebuilt carbs that will probably end up sitting on the shelf for a while. I don’t mind builder carbs sitting but wanted to cover the throats on the rebuilt ones to keep dust and little critters out of them.

I looked up commercial carb covers and they want $10 and up for them which isn’t too bad but I hit on another idea that was basically free. I have a few of the plastic carb spacers sitting around and after looking at them I figured out I could just cut a piece of cardboard and slip it inside the spacer up against the little lip at the top.

C5 by M Patterson, on Flickr



C4 by M Patterson, on Flickr


C6 by M Patterson, on Flickr


A couple of the carbs that may end up on the shelf are the smaller throat early AFBs. I have the adapters to use the larger base air cleaners on them and if they end up sitting I’ll just use masking tape to cover those up.

C3 by M Patterson, on Flickr



I don't think it's too shabby for 5 minutes of work and being free.


C1 by M Patterson, on Flickr




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