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The Great Carburetor Rebuild Survey
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Posted by: MadScientistMatt

I've decided to take a survey across a couple different forums about the quality of homemade carb rebuilds versus store-bought rebuilds. I'd like to hear about all the rebuilt carburetors you have used on your own cars, although this should probably be limited to near-stock ones with just a few changes like jetting. If you want to participate, here's what I want to know:

1. What model of carburetor?
2. What engine and car was it on?
3. Who rebuilt it - yourself, a friend, a professional carb specialist, or bought one from a chain parts store like Autozone, etc?
4. How well did it work after rebuilding?

Here are my examples:

Carb no. 1

Holley 1920
225 slant six on my '66 Dart
Rebuilt it at home with a kit from NAPA
Worked just fine.

Carb no. 2

Carter BBD
Same engine and car as above
Bought a parts store carb off Ebay
Never could get it to accelerate smoothly - it would always bog and surge when I hit the gas

Posted by: bigjhaire

edelbrock ....just take it apart and clean it ounce in a while and keep on riding...

Posted by: StoneFox

Every rebuild carb ive bought from an Auto parts store has been a pos

Ive rebuilt a Q-jet it worked fine afterwords

a Holley 600 Double pumper, It sat for 3 monts with gas in the bowls, There was no chem-dipping that one enough to save it, It never worked right afterwords

and what Bigj said

Posted by: John

Shit, I can't remember half of what I did ten minutes ago let alone model numbers and cars! Most of the work I did for friends who were struggling with rebuilding it themselves. I just stepped in and showed them how to put it back together.

I will say that the AFB's were the biggest pains in the asses I ever worked on. If the Carter kits didn't come with instructions, I'd probably have screwed more of them up.

The easiest rebuilds were Q-jets and Holleys. Easiest in the respect that they were straightforward, simple designs without a whole ton of calibration needed and no funny tools that were expensive as hell and needed a voodoo priest, a dead chicken and incense to get to work right.

Posted by: Mr. P

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Posted by: John

Waitaminute here. You just expounded ad-nauseum on the ease of rebuilding Carter AFB yet in every single paragraph, you mention a "gotcha" and each one of them is different. How is anyone supposed to believe that these things are easy to deal with when you make a post like that while slamming an exploded view right in the middle of it?

Posted by: Mr. P

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Posted by: The OLE MAN

It's this simple.

If YOU'RE FUCKED UP...................

The Carb is FUCKED UP..................

it's not rocket science

the biggest problem I have seen is not getting all the parts you need. Thats why I NEVER throw away any extra parts and always buy what I can find at the swap meet ( extra parts ).

Personally, I like the Dominators...................

The OLE MAN

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