[cariboumarkt]

So, our first order of business was to keep this truck from becoming a bonfire. Seriously, there was soooooo much fuel leaking, squirting, pouring out of this truck on day one any backfire would've likely resulted in a mushroom cloud! Don't tell my mother-in-law, but our first stop outta their driveway was at a hardware store to buy a fire extinguisher.

A new filler cap stopped gas from pouring out the filler neck, that helped, but the carb, a Q-Jet, was the bigger issue. The bowl leaked, fuel would pour out the throttle shaft on shutdown and puddle in the manifold, a rebuild was clearly in order.

I procured a rebuild kit and got to work. I soaked the whole thing in the parts washer for three days before spending almost three hours with various wire brushes and other implements just trying to get the crud off!