Leaking Carb

[heavychevy91]

In my 1986 K20 I have a mildly built 350. It has an Edelbrock 600 on there now and an AC Delco 40987 fuel pump. Carb has about 18,000 mi on it. Pump is

I pulled into the hardware store today and as I was turning into the parking spot the truck died on me. I went to re start, the engine acted as it was flooded. I held it to the floor it cleared out, i pulled into the spot and shut it off.

When i looked under the hood gas was dripping on both sides of the carb from the secondary shaft. I took a rag and wiped up the gas. Checked the shaft, no real play. Went inside. Came back out started. No leaks. Ran real rich at idle, like black smoke rich. Drove it home and it was really loading up in the lower RPM's

Tonight im going to pull the carb and check the floats, needles and seats to see if anything looks dirty and check the seals as well.

The question is if i cant get this carb back together tonight i have a quadrajet of an 86' c10 with a 4.3. It is not an M4ME. I know its not ideal, but could i run this carb to get by till i get back in service.

Thanks,
Tim

[bake74]

     As long as it mounts and all the linkage hooks up I don't see why you could not run it for a short term until you get the other one fixed.  As you already stated it is not ideal, as long as you know that and don't expect the same performance as the other one.