[mikediaz]

Hey everyone.
I will be receiving my '65 tripower setup today and will have to embark upon restoring it. I'd like to try to rebuild the 3 carbs myself. If it gets too impossible I could always at worst send it off to be rebuilt but I wanna have fun doing it myself so please refrain from one-line posts saying "send it to a pro" etc.

I will attach a pik of the setup below.

It hasn't been run for at the least 8 years but all butterflies move freely.


Where should I start with this one? The front and rear carbs have correct '65 casting numbers but the center carb - although it looks totally correct has a strange casting # on it from what the seller told me. I'll take a good look at it today and post exactly what the 3 #s are.


I have another manifold that is painted up nice and can sub in for this one but I'm gonna see how beat up the new manifold is when it coems in today.



I suppose step 1 is cleaning up the outsides of all this? What sorts of solvents do you all recommend? I've got a nice steam spray gun that could probably take off any excess grease, should the rest be up to carb cleaner??

I figured I'd post this here and not in the 'street' section because I wanted to make sure I heard the Full-sizers recommendations before I had to hear what the Goaters had to say ; )

Thanks all- i wanna keep you all up2date on this project the whole way thru so you all can see how great it (hopefully) turns out!


P.s. who sells the best rebuild kits? I know the carburetorshop sells some and pontiactripower.com sells some. I'm not sure of the prices of the carbshop's but I bet both are aabout the same. Anyone experience eihter of the two? (Carbking's comments welcome)