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Sometime around 67 or 68 I ran into a couple of Carter kits that had poorly cut leather accelerator pumps, maybe just a fluke.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Sometime around 67 or 68 I ran into a couple of Carter kits that had poorly cut leather accelerator pumps, maybe just a fluke.

Ken,
About that time frame I remember an accelerator pump in a kit where the hole in the leather for the retaining screw on top of the brass shaft was punched off center which made one side of the "skirt" very short and the opposite side overly long. I couldn't say if it was a Carter kit or not, but it was for a Carter carb on my old 348. I also don't recall for sure what I did to resolve the issue but your comment triggered the memory.

Originally Posted by rspears

Ken,
About that time frame I remember an accelerator pump in a kit where the hole in the leather for the retaining screw on top of the brass shaft was punched off center which made one side of the "skirt" very short and the opposite side overly long. I couldn't say if it was a Carter kit or not, but it was for a Carter carb on my old 348. I also don't recall for sure what I did to resolve the issue but your comment triggered the memory.

That was my problem as well and I just lightly coated the old one with Vaseline and reused it.
On another note I remember an article in Hot Rod magazine about double springing the accelerator pump. I did one that way, but didn't notice any appreciable improvement though. Might have been a bigger deal on the strip but not so much on the street.