Friday, Nov. 7, 2026

The weather just turned colder the last couple of days, but before that its been unseasonablyl nice here in Central Kentucky.

Today my daughter brought out my 1995 Suzuki Sidekick she’s borrowed for a while so we could reattach the plastic molding (see photo at right) on the driver’s door that came loose a couple of years ago and I pulled loose so it wouldn’t fall off while driving down the highway.

I went to my go-to cement — Urethane windshield adhesive that comes in a caulking tube format. The problem was that the adhesive is really thick and unless the tip is cut for a rather large opening, it is extremely difficult to get a manual caulking gun to dispense a small bead of adhesive.

Well, trying to use the manual caulk gun with a small opening was damn near impossible. Well, my daughter decided she needed greater leverage with the caulk gun. She took the 3-foot segments of my wife’s kayak paddle and slipped each half of the paddle over the caulk gun handle. What a stroke of genius, because with 3-foot pipes on the gun trigger, she had more leverage than she needed! It worked superbly!

My original plan was to move my 55 Chevy wagon out of the shop and pull her car in the shop. Well, I had the hood up to charge the battery, and hadn’t disconnected the charger. Hopped in the Chevy and starter her up. Once started, I hopped out to unhook the charger and saw a stream of gasoline coming from the fuel line at the fuel filter. YIKES!

The fuel filter was what I believed was leaking, so I went to town and bought a replacement. I replaced the filter and fired it up again. Got out to look and the stream of gas was even larger! YIKES vol 2!!

Shut it down and plan to reexamine the fuel feed system. I’m still running a Chinese Edelbrock clone carb, and while it has never leaked, I need to check it out carefully. Tomorrow I’ll have someone crank the car with the fuel line off to see if the leak is the carb or the line. I would be really surprised if the carb is responsible for the leak.

CHINESE CARB UPDATE. I plan to offer an update to my earlier videos about my Chinese Edelbrock clone carb. Believe it or not, I have had excellent luck with the clone carb I bought just over a year ago. Now I have a couple of stumbles on rare occasions, But 9.5 times out of 10, the carb performs flawlessly.

Some of the more “professional” carb guys never have anything positive to say about them. And they do much more than just put the carb on an engine and see how it performs. That’s pretty much where I am.

And given the carb issues I was having from the original Edelbrock that came on the car, the improvement is substantial. Now I do have a carb kit to install in my original Edelbrock, but have yet to install the kit.

One change I’m going to make is to add one of those metal feed lines that bring the line to the front of the intake. I’m considering buying a second Chinese carb to see how well it works.

I have a 4 barrel factory intake for my 318 poly engine in my 1956 Plymouth Belvedere, and I’m either going to use my rebuilt Edelbrock or a Chinese clone carb.

DUAL CARBS FOR CHEVY? I’m really wanting to run dual quads on the Chevy, as in two 600 cfm Edelbrock (i.e. Chinese knock-off) carbs. However I have to admit that you can readily buy used 600 Edelebrocks on eBay under $150. They’re easy to rebuild, so that may be the best route to go. We’ll see.

Of course, right now the to-do list on the Chevy is still going to include adding belt-driven AC as a priority. Carpet and door panels, side panels in back and cargo flooring are the number 2 item on the list. I have the tinting film to do the side windows and tailgates, so that should be interesting as well.

There’s always something, eh?

I have lesser updates to consider too on the Chevy. I need a new back bumper. I need to fix all the dash lights too. The dash lights aren’t going to be a huge problem, just a needed to-do item.

To fund this stuff, I need to sell some of my ham radio gear. I can raise several thousand bucks fairly easily by doing so, so I need to get that stuff listed.

Well enough yammering. Time for bed.