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</v:background></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Seems like everything I touch on the car develops some kind of issue. I got it running with the old Ford Carb and even with a rebuild kit, the accel pump failed. So Put on an old Holley 2bbl race carb I had lying about and like the Ford carb refused to play nicely. After the rebuild, and it had sat for a long while so I took great care in the rebuild, it failed to stop the fuel flow when the bowl was full. Interspersed with this was a honey do project of re-grouting some floor tile joints. We live on an old lake bed and even with an artificial alluvial fan to build on, floors and concrete still cracks. Life in the desert. But back to the carb. I swapped a pile of needle and seats into that carb and nothing worked, but this morning I surfed onto a fix it page for Holley carbs and found the solution. Well, not quite but close. It had to be the needle and seat even though I tried several. So off with the carb! Remove the fuel bowl and holy cow. The float would touch the top of the bowl and still not shut off the fuel. After staring at it for maybe 10 seconds, I decided that the float arm had somehow become bent. Adjusted the arm to put the float into a “basic” starting position, and then screwed in the needle and seat. This time it could touch the float arm and actually worked! Another holy cow! Turned the bowl upside down to let the float close the needle and blew into the inlet and I turned blue trying. No leaky.. all back together and it works. But, the car won’t let me win quite yet. It is getting way too much fuel now. Dang. So I decided that I need some new main jets. Now I need to remove the carb again and remove the bowl and remove the jets and see that number they are. Then will get some a couple of sizes smaller and them maybe one more set 1 size smaller than those. As it turns out, the car has mostly spent it’s entire life within the near confines of sea level. I tis not at sea level now. 2700 feet up so I guess I should have anticipated that. But I am an EFI kinda guy now, lol. SO I missed that. I have a complete EFI set up that may inhabit the engine compartment soon, lol. So while messing with starting and fiddling with the car, I noticed a growing puddle of oil on the shop floor. Wha? SO I started looking around by the oil filter, it is the OEM stock set up, and found that the hose that connects to the oil filter aluminum piece underneath side is very oily. I suspect that it has s**t the bed. Another little gotcha… Now I ask, any of you folk replaced the OEM lines with braided SS lines? If so were you able to find adapters for the block fitting from inverted flare to AN sizes? I like that OEM block adapter because I tis so flat and skinny. Race car has a Canton unit that I ground a lot off of and made an plate that bolts onto the head to hold the oil filter adapter there. So I could steal that, but I’d rather have as much OEM as I can without overspending the national debt. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any help from you all on what you did to solve this issue? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And then there is the soon to happen install of rack booties… Watched a vid on how to do that without removing the tie rod ends from the rack tie rods. Was actually a very slick process. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyway, hope ya’ll have some ideas and experiences with oil filter hoses, adapters and such. Listening for ya…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mayf<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>_________________________<br>drmayf<br>Worlds Fastest Sunbeam, period.<br>204.913 mph flying mile average speed<br>210.779 mph exit (not top) speed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>