I feel your pain, not the milk shake that you enjoy.   

Mine had a crack in the bore of cylinder #3 - what a mess.

Hope you have some good luck.

Graeme

Ok, did anyone else go................."the pictures are reverse negatives?"....

Those dern furin cars...........

Check the brake master cylinder - Made in Australia - right hand drive 

Graeme

Hi Guys,

got my carburetor back from the QF technicians, what they said is below, not sure where to go now except do as they say? 

Graeme

Tested P/valve in the carby was ok
 
Block was ok no cracks casting lines
 
There  is all ways fuel in the p/v restrictor well area   

Put new gaskets & reassembled unit
 
Had carby on test bench for two days no leaks
 
Nothing out the p/v hole in the base plate were this is drilled thru into body   / p/v sits
 
Customer may need to change p/v restrictor size, P/valve size

Work with the squirter shot size 
 
 
regards
QF Support

HI All,

over the last few months I have been dialling in my 445 build in my Thunderbird. All going well but having an issue with the carburetor.

The problem is if I leave car for a week or so and start it up, it blows black smoke until it warms up. Then when I start it hot after a few hours it spits fuel out of the exhaust. Other than that the engine is running well, carb setup with air flow meter and pulls around 15 lbs of vacuum at idle.

I noticed at initial startup that the car blew black smoke and I replaced the power valve (6.5) with a new one and all seemed ok. When I pulled the old valve out I noted the well behind the power valve was flooded with fuel.

This week it happened again, smoke at startup so I checked the power valve again. Yes, the well was full of fuel again. If you click on the image below it should zoom in to an image of the metering plate. This is the best image I could get but it seems to have a lot of hairline cracks in the area between the two jets.

Has anyone seen this before and could it be the cause of the fuel flow into the well? Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

The carb is a Quickfuel 780 vac secondary.

Thanks
Graeme

I have the T&D setup as well, standard Street version.

Like you I had the rocker covers filling with oil so ended up blocking the head feeds and had no trouble since. I used a rivet of the correct size to block them, worked out ok but since then have taken heads off and had a threaded plug inserted.

Edit:: and the pushrods have holes in them too.

Graeme

Hi Chief,

Have appended a link, I think to be honest they are all the same but packaged differently. I'd just contact one of the vendors like Brent and grab a steel or alloy replacement and not worry about the sleeve?
 

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/fel-16213/applications/make/ford


Graeme

Can you post the brand of your new balancer as well?

I have a very similar setup with new SCAT stroker and balancer also. The water pump I have is cast iron and I cannot recall the pulley being so close to it.

When I get home I can send images of mine, everything seems to line up - would that help?

Graeme