Originally Posted by jmarksdragster
Originally Posted by roadkill2
"A Used Holley Carburetor is somebody else's mistake that they can't fix, so they sold it to you!"
95% of the time!
And I'd bet that goes pretty much for any other Carb off a race car . .
"A used Holley is a gem to someone that takes the time to understand it. Same goes for a Demon, nothing a little massaging won't fix".
Holleys are pretty simple pieces, but you just have to look for hammer marks, saw cuts, grind marks and all those little things that indicate that someone up the ownership line understood other ways of making one work . . then it's time for Burial rather than "massaging" . .
And true, carbs don't (often) wear out. Usually a carb gets blamed for something else that went wrong all of a sudden. Most of the time it's a 'Lectrical Gremlin . .