Carter 419S adjustment

[ebbsspeed]

I hace a Carter 419S on my 1937 that I need to adjust. It's all clean and rebuilt, but the thing won't mix gas at cruising speeds. Idle is perfect, and wide open is perfect, but if I try to drive the thing it starves for gas right off idle and dies. I'm fairly certain that the adjustment to cure the issue has to do with the mechanism under the cover right next to the accelerator pump. There are a couple of adjustments in a sheet I downloaded, but they use gauges specific to a a Carter carb, and I don't have these. They are used to set the fuel metering rods and something that is called the anti-percolation valves, which I assume are the two valves on either side of the metering rods. The metering rods, accelerator pump, vacuum piston and these two valves are all operated by the same mechanism, and experimenting to get it right is something I'd rather not do.

Any assistance I can get in adjusting the carb would be appreciated. Thanks!

[39CENT]

well early Carters were pretty similar so hope this article helps some.


http://www.jpmagazine.com/howto/21938/index.html