Carb parts help

Well I got the carb cleaned out and put back together only to find that one of my tiny clips/keys broke off the metal linkage to the butterfly valve and is nowhere to be found. I cannot find a place to get them or any information online at all. Anyone have any ideas where to get them? Anyone have some lying around?

Rochester Model 2b, you can see the tiny clip/key in the first picture on the right and it is gone on the left.

 

it is also called the "rod retainer" clip.

 

The new kit you installed should have had replacement clips included in it.

 

it doesn't, the little chinese kid must have forgotten to put them in

 

If you want to wait a few days for them to get there, P.M. me your address and I'll drop a few in an envelope and send them to you.

 

They're also known as "jesus clips"... when it goes flying, "jesus, where did that go?".

Any decent parts house should have a bin of them.

Bob

 

lol, thanks Bob. The key word is "decent"

 

PM sent, thanks saltracer!

 

Ace Hardware Store

 

The clip in the picture is called a pin spring. While Rochester used a very few pin springs, a much more common item for Rochester was simply called a clip. The Rochester clip was an almost square piece of sheet metal with a groove cut from the center, causing the resultant look similar to the letter "U". The clip was installed by inserting the groove of the clip over the groove in the linkage rod, and then bending the two ends of the clip preventing the clip from coming off.

These clips are much more common in the repair kits for Rochester. And are much more difficult for the average enthusiast to use.

On a related note, Snap-On makes a ridiculously priced tool for inserting/removing the pin springs that is worth every penny!!!! The tool consists of a small brass tube with a hook at one end and a spring-loaded push button at the other. The hook and the button are connected by a tiny rod that goes through the tube. Depressing the button allows one to "hook" the end of the pin spring; releasing the button will then capture the pin spring and it can be removed from the carburetor and retaining on the tool until needed. When needed, the pin spring is easy to insert on the linkage using the tool.

And Napa Auto Parts stores carry (or at least did carry) different sizes of both the pin springs and the clips.

Jon.

 

You think they have something that small? Do they sell them in a pack of ten or something?

 

If your not all hung up on originality , a small "C" clip will work on those..

dave

 

I've got some, Scott...

 

I guess most stores are set up the same. In the back there's an aisle with the nuts, bolts, and other miscellaneous hardware. Bring the part with you and ask the employee to find you a clip, any clip, that you can use on it.

He's bound to find something. That place is a MacGuyver paradise.

 

http://www.quadrajetparts.com/

 

I have one down the street, i'll check it out.

I forgot to even ask you, you are the first number in my phone too

Thanks everyone for the help