H Carb Rebuild Observations

Overall it was a pretty straight forward process.
I made sure I had a diagram next to me and matched up the old parts to the new and marked them on the copy of the carb diagram page I made.

Took my time and kept track of where things went as I took them off. The one gotcha was the spring & ball that came with my kit, I did not see those pieces when I took mine apart and thought they had "sprung" out of there when I took it apart. So I fought for over an hour trying to get those pieces in! Ended up there was no way thay they were going in there. So maybe the choke shaft had been replaced? Anyway overall not a bad job to attempt for a beginner, but I don't think the kit is worth $90 when you can get an aftermarket in the $30 range.
I was planning on doing a step by step picture takedown but the wife had the camera, so maybe my next one I will do that.

Randy

As far as the kit, I am buy no means qualified to judge on these kits, I am going on what people that do this stuff all the time like RustyFarmall & others have said that the parts fit better etc.

I bought it because I wanted to do it right with genuine parts.

I just think that for the money, more parts should be supplied.

What I should have done was buy the aftermarket kit from my local TSC store and compared them side by side on what a guy really gets for the money.

I have no idea what part of my kit if any made the difference in it running better, maybe some of the tubes or passages were just clogged.
I let the carb body and parts soak for a few hours in the carb cleaner solution also.

Randy

Do you know if the IH kit includes this item? (If I described it properly)

I'll try a TISCO kit.

As far as implications go, I break enough stuff through stupidity on my own, this was just not one of them.

On the other hand, there are lots of things which just cannot be disassembled without breaking. My goal is to not disassemble what does not need to come apart and then not be broken up about it if I have to cut it apart.

I've never used heat on carburetors. I'll try that. I take great pride on getting stuff apart if it will come apart, without damaging the original parts, and I usually do pretty good. It still gripes me when I fail. I hate to twist off dot head bolts, even when they are corroded and I replace them, they still go in my pile to be saved.

The venturi is an interesting comment. I guess I have never had trouble getting them out, in fact I have had several fall to the ground in the field while I am trying to clean out the carburetor without any cleaner. About all you can do is flush with gasoline and put it back together. Now that I think about it the carburetor is absorbing heat from the manifold while you're trying to work on it on the tractor. That may be why they seem to fall out half way through the job.