Joining the carbs - fuel line and tee seating

[Paladin]

I've rejoined my carbs after taking them all apart for cleaning and new jets. Replaced all orings everywhere, including the fuel and air lines between the carbs.

When mating the carbs together, I pushed the fuel lines, air lines, and/or three-ways into one carb until it seemed like they seated.  Then I pushed the carbs together until everything was snugged up side by side. My question: When I put the long rods back through the dowels and tightened the nuts to draw everything firmly together - I'm assuming that drew the fuel, air, and threeways tightly enough in their respective holes to achieve a seal?

I'm out of time this weekend. Next weekend will be reattachment of the throttle link arm and installation of the Dan Marc. I'm inching ever closer to (hopefully) being done with this project

[fordmano]

Basically YES. That should draw them all tight enough. Make sure you have the big heavy cross brace between the CARBS on both sides and if you need a little extra room to slide the entire rack back in (here is a little tip) the rear cross support for the carb rack and the choke cross over cable can be left off and installed after the rack is back in place. Although I would suggest installing those items before trying to get the intakes back in place. Really the O-Rings make the seal not how tightly the CARBS are pressed together, the tightness is more important for alignment for a nice fit to everything that touches them.

Hope that helps, sorry sometimes I type and explain things very cryptically.

Keep up the good work, I know how hard it is to get any real progress when time is very limited and scattered.