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Wife's YJ ('Hector') has had MASSIVE fuel problems. The damned Carter Carb was literally DUMPING fuel into the engine. It took me a 1/4 tank of gas to get to work one morning...it's 3 miles.
So, while I was working on the CJ's wiring...I decided I had to park Hector. I can't afford $20 to go back and forth to work every day. I know some of you guys do it, I just don't know how.
Long story longer....I ordered a kit from eBay to switch my Weber carb out with a MC2150. I know many of you will say, why not just go to EFI?? Mostly because EFI is $1300 on average, and I just don't have that kind of cash laying around. And because I needed Hector up and running so that I can MAYBE start looking at doing some work on Valdez's frame and body. The kit cost me about $316 with the carb. The guy sells kits to mount your own carb if you pull one out of the junkyard. I hear they are pretty popular carbs, but where I live...good luck. Saved myself the hassle.
The kit is quite complete with all the widgets shown:
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and I REALLY had intentions of taking pictures along the way of how I put it in and what-not...but found I was moving so fast that I forgot. But when I was finished I ended up with this:
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So far it seems to be great! I have a gigantic crack in my exhaust manifold, which has caused my intake manifold to warp and now I have a vacuum problem. All of this is holding me up from getting the upgrade finally finished. I still have some HUGE timing problems, and I have to get the idle back down around 900 (currently at 1250).
Thanks for recommending this fix to me Paul.
So, while I was working on the CJ's wiring...I decided I had to park Hector. I can't afford $20 to go back and forth to work every day. I know some of you guys do it, I just don't know how.
Long story longer....I ordered a kit from eBay to switch my Weber carb out with a MC2150. I know many of you will say, why not just go to EFI?? Mostly because EFI is $1300 on average, and I just don't have that kind of cash laying around. And because I needed Hector up and running so that I can MAYBE start looking at doing some work on Valdez's frame and body. The kit cost me about $316 with the carb. The guy sells kits to mount your own carb if you pull one out of the junkyard. I hear they are pretty popular carbs, but where I live...good luck. Saved myself the hassle.
The kit is quite complete with all the widgets shown:
[CENTER]
[/CENTER]and I REALLY had intentions of taking pictures along the way of how I put it in and what-not...but found I was moving so fast that I forgot. But when I was finished I ended up with this:
[CENTER]
[/CENTER]So far it seems to be great! I have a gigantic crack in my exhaust manifold, which has caused my intake manifold to warp and now I have a vacuum problem. All of this is holding me up from getting the upgrade finally finished. I still have some HUGE timing problems, and I have to get the idle back down around 900 (currently at 1250).
Thanks for recommending this fix to me Paul.
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