Old School Tuning: Choosing And Changing Carburetor Jets

When i’m tired of working on my old piece of shit, i watch other people work on their old pieces of shit. Thank you tony

Decades of fighting Chevy v. Ford. Listening to a smart Mopar man could have saved me years. Go Uncle Tony!

UT Translation: "So, when it was nice and quiet this morning, I fixed that by tearing up some asphalt."

We're watching Tony work! I've stepped back from the screen just to be safe.

drains gas nicely into cap. proceeds to throw it onto floor. i love old school wrenching.

Now that Derek with VGG has moved to your neck of the woods, I look forward to some collabs coming up in the future.

For hating working in front of the camera, you did a great job of making an easily digestible informative video.

uncle tony should be the last image in the "evolution of man chart" standing there with a slant six under his arm

Thanks Tony, You are doing much better sharing your brain lately and I thank you for the mad scientist hot rodder you are for us regular folks.

"It only exasperated the situation." You're a legend, Tony :-)

Simple Craftsman hand tools, simple logic applied, simple engine to work on. The "technique" is simple as well; his hands move almost identically to what mine do to this day. Those hands are seriously seasoned. Pure "Point A" to "Point B" wrenching, no flash, no textbook sanitary - just exactly what is needed to do the job, nothing more - and tempered, oh so very tempered, at every step by years of experience in knowing what could go wrong if done differently at any point. It's a pleasure to watch Tony's videos again. I like this course of content creation and think it does the hobby a world of good that it gets put out there. This is the stuff young skulls full of mush need to learn so that the hobby survives. Good on ya, Tony. - Ed on the Ridge

I love that this is a mechanical secondary setup

I remember when "Stagger Jetting" was a headliner on one of the car magazines. Big voodoo technology back then haha

I said this before….and i’ll say it agian…. “ i totally dig the white engine bay and underside of hood” looks soo clean and bright. 😎

The Mopar Bible specifies popsicle stick air dams inside the intake for fuel distribution problems like this. A flexible fuel line allows the bowls to be removed without removing the fuel lines. It costs about 20 dollars more. You can slice an all metal line and put some flex hose in the middle. The Roadkill guys have a good video on carb tuning with an Air Fuel Gauge, though it is meant for a street car.

I watched this with the closed caption on. When you started the car it read [music] . I agree, sounds nice.

Back in the days before blue gaskets, I read to use chapstick on them before assembly. I did. It worked.

Generally I love my Fords; I have Fords, but there's something just so sweet about a slant six, and the sound of a Chrysler starter motor from this era... so sweet...

"QUICKIE"? Nice to see a video longer than 10 minutes. I don't care what YouTube says. When the Gearhead Monk speaks we listen! The longer the better in my opinion.

Great video. I have not seen anyone else go into such detail on the topic of plug-tuning before. Obviously not rocket science, but the level of detail is more than meets the eye. I think most of us go for gross step-ups in power, where your limiting the inquiry to a specific context gives a lot of ideas that are generally ignored. When I was watching super stocks in the heyday, I often wondered how some, like Sox and Martin, Ramchargers and Grumpy Jenkins would consistently be class winners, while many others with essentially identical cars would not. I knew some cars would say "tuned by Joe Fabeets" or whatever, but did not know exactly what it meant.