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Sam Goodwin Posted on Apr 08, 2016
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Will a carb rebuild fix this?

I have gas in the oil, and the carburetor is flooding the engine. Started off as a carb adjustment, and wound up finding sticking floats, super flooded motor and finally gas in the oil leaking down the transmission bell housing, it finally stopped, carb is off the truck now.

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Possible
the float needle and seat is the first obvious fault
next if a holley, is the power valve has a hole in the diaphragm
next is wrong pressure from the pump ( add a fuel pressure regulator)
best have the caby overhauled by an accredited carby specialist shop because it is very easy to miss the exact reason for the flooding and be back in the situation where you are now

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