The carburetor sitting on your vintage Mustang can be a finicky device. It has minute passages that air and fuel travel through to feed the engine the fuel it demands based on load, rpm, and so forth.

There's heartache and joy that come with owning, and caring for, an older vehicle. It's helpful if you can sort out a number of problems on your own, it will save you cash and trips to your local ...

If there were a category titled Good Carb, Bad Reputation, the Rochester Quadrajet would be at the top of that hit parade. It's doubtful there is a domestic fuel mixer more universally misunderstood ...

Freshening a carburetor isn't that scary — anyone with a little mechanical aptitude, a set of basic hand tools, and an off-the-shelf gasket/jet kit can rebuild a carb on the cheap. There are certainly ...

The four-barrel Rochester Quadrajet can be stripped and kit-built in less than an hour—and for less than $10 Just as with almost every other engine component, carburetors do suffer the pangs of age ...

Truck won't start after a few days without driving unless a little gas is poured down the carburetor A successful carburetor rebuild fixes the problem and doesn't create new ones Your vehicle is worth ...

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From the postwar era to the mid-'80s, General Motors' Rochester Division defined carburetor performance. Rochester also developed the mechanical fuel injection systems found on '57-'59 full-size ...

A classic car is more than a way to get from A to B. It is a rolling time capsule, and few parts define its character as strongly as the way it breathes and burns fuel. The argument over whether a ...

Eighteen-year-old Riley Schlick-Trask, who started her own carburetor repair business at age 13, has been named the grand prize winner of the TechForce Foundation's 2023 Techs Rock Awards. The annual ...

Rebuilding a carburetor can be a daunting task if you've never done it before. There are tons of small parts, screws and gaskets that need replacing, and a lot of pieces that need cleaning or ...