What a gem too have a Delco Remy 4 jet nos! I'm just getting into my first one for a friend wanting to sell her 60 Impala 4 door hardtop. It's a driver and a California car but an older paint job. Super solid but needs a lot of love to be really nice. It's a complete runner and driver which is a great start.

Hello Howard. Enjoyed the rebuild. Happy New Year! George B

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year

Cool tools! The kits that I used to use came with cardboard gauges.

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

I remember them.

Rebuilding carbs is a lost art Howard. Happy New Year 🎉

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

I'm amazed when I watch KZread videos, how few know the proper way to go through and set up a carburetor. They're so simple.... to me anyway. Happy New Year

Love those carburetor tools-a feller doesn’t see those everyday. Thanks Howard and cheers to the coming new year!

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I have a bunch of other carb adjustment gauges somewhere.... I found the 2GC gauges, but I have them for a bunch of other brands and types carburetors also. I bought them at an auction back in the 90's from a carb rebuild shop that closed up, due to fuel injection doing away with carburetors. I bought a ton of carburetors and kits, but sold most of them over the years.

Last time I seen somebody tearing a carburetor part was my Dad. To see somebody else's doing a tear down, is pretty cool. So thank you for all the videos this year and hope you have a whole bunch more to come Happy New Years

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

I do have more videos to come.... Happy New Year

Nice off the shelf refurb of a NOS carb! A rare find indeed! Happy New Year!

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

It was just luck I found this NOS correct carburetor for my 59 Bel Air in an estate sale. Happy New Year.

Howard, I hope you had a great Christmas and I wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year !! I am looking forward to Old Car Alley 24 !!

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Christmas was good. I got a Cold War Motors calendar for Christmas. Happy New Year

thanks for your videos, very helpful, im in the process of rebuilding one now....

Happy New Year Howard! Another enjoyable tutorial. Well done as usual.

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year

Happy New Year Howard, love the videos, good job.

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year

Wow! That was nice to see the inside of the nos Rochester 4-Jet. Would be nice to see the inside of the one in your Bel-Air, if you decide to swap it with this nos one. Have a healthy, Happy New Year, Howard!

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

I did show the inside of the Bel Air's carb this past summer, when I had the replace the accelerator pump. It was very clean. Happy New Year

@dynatrak

6 ай бұрын

@@OldCarAlley Thank you! I missed that one, and will go check it out.

Happy New Year!

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year

hope you had a good holiday howard, and happy new year

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

So far it been an awesome holiday, other than the lack of snow. I do like snow over Christmas.... Its been a warm Christmas here. Happy New Year

Happy New Year 🎉

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year

Happy New Year, Howard.

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year

Happy new year howard

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year

Awesome video Howard! Always nice to see a master carb rebuild guy in action! Are you planning on swapping this in your 59?

@OldCarAlley

5 ай бұрын

If I ever need a carb for the Bel Air, I have one. For now it will sit on a shelf, in its box, until I need it...... The one on the car works fine, so who knows, it may sit another 65 years on a shelf.....

Hey Howard thanks for another carburetor rebuild. It's too bad we don't know the history of it and why it remained in its box for 64 years! Anyway did you happen to try the jiffy pop in your pop corn shaker? If not give it a try even if you don't want to eat it! I'm just curious if it worked or not. Anyway have a great new year. Looking forward to the end of winter and getting together with you and Dave and cruising in our '59 Belairs. Take care my friend.

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

I assume it sat on a dealers shelf, until they realized they had zero use for it. I use to go to car dealers and buy old inventory that they knew wouldn't ever sell in their dealership, often paying pennies on the dollar for the parts. Years ago I would buy all the inventory of a closing dealership, shop, or auto parts store. I use to resell the parts at swap meets or on eBay. I stopped doing it back in the early 2000's, due to it's a lot of work. I often doubled or tripled what I paid for the parts, but the time involved in getting the parts, sorting them, figuring out what they fit, listing them, then boxing and shipping them was a ton of work, then eBay raised the fees for selling, to where over half the profit seemed to get eaten up by their fees, so I quit doing it. Swap meet spaces that use to be around $20 now runs well over $200+.... you got to sell a lot of stuff to make up your space fee. Thats why swap meets are not what they use to be, and why I don't sell at meets anymore. The Jiffy Pop fits the popper, but it's not as deep, being an inch or two from the burner, it may never get hot enough to pop, but I do need to try it anyway. I looking forward to cruising season too, it will be here before you know it. I look forward to the three Bel Air's out cruising. Happy New Year

@Martin48964

6 ай бұрын

Hey Howard I was just rewatching a video you made the Wednesday before the 2023 Dream Cruise. I must have missed that '59 Impala convertible at the beginning when I first watched it. Do you know the owner? She looked beautiful. It would be great to meet up with him.

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

I knew a guy that owned a mint condition red 59 Impala convertible, with a 348 tri power. He passed away about five years ago. I was trying to see if that was the same car with a new owner.... but he left before I could return to that parking lot. Shortly after he passed away, his wife asked me if I was interested in purchasing the 59 Impala convertible. I could not afford it. She was asking $150,000 for it. No doubt it was worth her asking price, maybe more, but thats more than I paid for my house! I do know a couple others that own 59 Chevy's.... Mark has two 59 Impala Sport Sedans, Dave has a 59 El Camino..... both cars are in my past videos. Dave sold his 59 Impala Sport Sedan about three years ago, but it's in a past video or two also. He use to have one of every 59 GM flat tops made. He kept the 59 Cadillac flat top, but sold the rest over the past five years or so. All the 59 GM cars he owned are in my past videos. Dave lives about an hour north of me, but I still see him a few time a year. We have known each other for 60 years now. His dad passed away just before Christmas. I went to the funeral, as he was like a second father to me. He taught me how to paint (on the 59 Bel Air) and gave me my first spray gun and sold me his old air compressor, which I painted the Bel Air with back in 1978. A lot of water has flowers under the bridge since. I might add to one of my videos a story about Dave's dad teaching me how to paint and show the spray gun he gave me, which I still use. It's a very old DeVilbiss that was in rough shape when he gave it to me, though it sprays paint very nicely. It's one of my favorite spray guns, along with my Badger door jamb gun. Dave did get his 59 El Camino running good finally. The rebuilder installed the incorrect camshaft and it had some carburetor issues. I made a video of checking the engine out (a 348 tri power) a few years ago. I told him at the time I thought it was a messed up or incorrect camshaft. @@Martin48964

@Martin48964

6 ай бұрын

It would be great to meet your friend Dave. Maybe the 3 of us could drive our Belairs up and visit with him. Or maybe have him come down to your place. I'd love to have a ride in his Cadillac and El Camino. I guess I wasn't to far off when I said that the '59 Impala convertibles were selling for $200,000.00! (I always think in CDN dollars.) I'd also like to see us form a group of '59 Chevy owners! Have them all lined up and take pictures and/or videos. Any luck finding the seatbelts yet? Remember my offer is still good if you need any help when you're redoing the bench seat and installing the belts. Take care.

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

It's a bit of a drive to Dave's.... maybe just take one car. He comes down more often than I get up his way. Last time he was over this past fall, he drove his 1976 Olds Custom Cruiser station wagon. I haven't even look for seat belts yet. Been working on house projects. The flat part of the roof leaked, causing drywall to come down in the rear bedroom. The roof has since been replaced, and docent leak anymore, so over the Hollidays I replaced the drywall, mudded and sanded it. Ended up painting that bedroom, plus the hall and front bedroom. Also having the flooring replaced in both bedrooms. It's ugly carpet that was here when I purchased the house. The floors are going to be lament as that's what's in the rest of the house. That's being done next week. I hired that out, because the labor cost was much less than expected. Once thats done I have some dental work... crowns to be done. It will be mid to late January or maybe even February before I start work on refoaming the Bel Air's front seat and install seat belts. @@Martin48964

Happy New Year ! What cleaner would you recommend that doesn't harm aluminum?

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Mercury Marine sells a great product called "Power Tune". It will clean all the gum, grease and carbon from the aluminum, though you need to let it soak on the crud for a few hours or overnight. A little toilet bowl cleaner works good on corrosion, but wash it off good with hot water. If you leave it on the carburetor too long, it will destroy it, so be very careful when using it. Happy New Year

@jessicagreene1773

6 ай бұрын

Thank you !@@OldCarAlley

where do you get the measurement tools ?

@OldCarAlley

3 ай бұрын

I picked them up at an auction for a carb shop that closed up decades ago.

@bigjimbo560

3 ай бұрын

Thanks

Where you find carburetor tool HNY.

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

I purchased them at a carburetor rebuild shop that closed up in the early 90's. I have a bunch of different sets of carb tools I bought at that auction. Happy New Year

@lewismartin9980

6 ай бұрын

@@OldCarAlley Thanks

Happy New Year!

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year

Happy New Year 🎊

@OldCarAlley

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year