<VV> Weird Carbs

[BBRT]

What does the extra needle hook into?

And what is a complete idle circuit if no needle for adjustment. No slots 
but is there an idle hole? Does the circuit go to the front where the needle 
would go?
Chuck S
BBRT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "grant young" <gyoungwolf at earthlink.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:33 PM
Subject: <VV> Weird Carbs


> Just wondering how many others might have run across an oddity I found 
> this
> past weekend? While stripping a Corvair Carter YH carb I found that it had
> two idle mixture needles, one next to the other. Since this is a cast iron
> base, and since it had an extra "step" where the threads were tapped, it
> almost seems "factory". The only problem is that the extra hole doesn't
> hook in with the original idle circuit cavity.
>
> Also came across a pair of those elusive hybrid secondary carbs from 
> 1968/9
> with idle circuits. They have primary venturi clusters, a complete idle
> circuit, but no internal vacuum slots and no means of adjusting anything.
> FWIW,
> The Carbmeister
>
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