Some of you may remember over the winter I got involved with a church project to buy a john Deere tractor and it ended up with me owning a 1952 model A that was surplus to their wants .
over the weekend I took it on myself to rebuild the duplex carb that came on the late model A tractors .
I'm just going to toss this out there .... If you own or are thinking about buying a two cylinder with the duplex carb that needs rebuilt .
Send it out to a professional and pay the $500 .
Wow are they a huge pain in the rear to rebuild , there are 8 blind ports that you have to drill out ( from the outside ) and its a white knuckle endeavor for each one hoping you have the right location .
If you don't drill the ports there's no way in heck you'll ever get things clean enough to work right no matter how long you soak it in dip .
Like many others here I've rebuilt a few carbs over the years and don't find them particularly complicated or intimidating .
But I can say without embarrassment that I will never again rebuild a duplex john Deere carb .
15 hours of double , triple and quadruple checking every thing pretty much did me in . and it still needs put back on the tractor and tuned .
Just don't do it