Nice story.
Way to go Riley!
I did not really learn how to rebuild a carburetor until I was in my 20s and even then, I did not have the confidence to do anyone’s but my own.
Hats off from an 80 old motorcycle wrenchbender.
How do you surf in Tampa? The waves are like a foot.
Another woman succeeds . . . because a man taught her how.
I’ve read that 40 percent plus of “factory rebuilds” are faulty so if she’s turning out good work, the potential is there.
Needs to get a flow stand....
With carbs becoming more scarce she should diversify into electric drive motor rebuilding. Most world manufacturers are going all electric. Unless she specializes in high performance carbs for racing and classic cars. More power to her!
I miss my Holly 780 CFM 4-barrel
And the car with the engine I put it on. And a few of my other cars.
I miss the 1970s. Just saying..........
If one can tune a Holley 3310, one can send rockets to the moon.
She already has enough shop knowledge to propel her career than any of those "XYZ-Studies" idiots whose only college participation appears to involve protesting whatever......
Hopefully she will also pursue a degree in electrical engineering since in the not too distant future, EV's will be the govt. forced mode of transportation and gas driven vehicles will become obsolete.
Look for the parents to get cited for a zoning violation by a “code enforcement officer”. Some jurisdictions in Fl are truly vicious in their code enforcement - I remember hearing about one woman’s running up tens of thousands of dollars for parking in her own driveway too close to street or off concrete and on lawn not sure which.
I don’t know of any cars built in the USA in the last twenty years that have carburetors. Everything now is fuel injection. Still a market for classics though. A friend of mine recently rebuilt a carburetor for his ‘66 barracuda.
quintessential specialized small business made possible by the nearly universal international reach of the Internet ...
i’ve used such businesses at least three times: once to inexpensively replace a badly designed broken NUVI on/off switch with an IMPROVED switch made by the shop specializing in that repair; a second one in canada that specialized in replacing fried maxtor HD controller boards + specific microcode thus allowing data recovery, and a third that swapped Kenmore dryer controller boards with blown capacitors for repaired ones for a very reasonable fee, thus putting the dryer back in service for a few more decades instead of trashing it and buying a new one ...
What’s a carburetor?
I think you are going to find more and more teens go for the “work with my hands” route, rather than be pushed into college where they know they would be unhappy, learn nothing, and just end up in debt.
I knew a woman years ago who was a receptionist in an office during the week. On weekends, she helped her brother in his auto shop and rebuilt car motors. She eventually gave up the receptionist job and went to work full-time for her brother. Made more money and was a lot happier.