Zenith carb rebuild/ Restoration

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landyman02

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Hi All, hope you all had a great Xmas and looking forward to the new year celebrations.
been a good holiday for me spending most of it my shed working on my series, I rebuilt the gearbox and bolted that back in and have just finished carb rebuild. I ordered a carb rebuilt kit but had no idea how bad the carb was till I started taking it apart the throttle spindle had worn an oval hole which would allow air through messing up fuel mixtures, scratched my head a bit and then got on Youtube and found an awesome video of a guy rebuilding his with exactly the same problem.
first I built a little bracket to hold the carb securely on the drill press.
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I then secured to the drill press and drilled out a good thou undersized and pushed in a new plastic bush impregnated with Teflon both ends using Loctite, watch how deep you drill the other end there is a brass plug
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I then drill out the bush just the right size for the spindle, I should have reamed it but didn't have any and found them to be costly for just one job.
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And here it is all back together and back on the car, just to add I sanded all the faces to get them nice flat before re-assembly.

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And here is the link to the You tube video it's worth watching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkDwAkRBjaA
 
I don't know as I bought the landy 2yrs ago with a stuffed engine and was not driveable, been a labor of love rebuilt engine, box, diffs and just about everything else, have nearly finished now so hopefully it starts! :confused:
 
Good luck with it and keep us posted on the progress. We like to hear about old landies roaring into life for the first time in ages.

Col
 
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