Remanufactured Carbs

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Hi all. I am looking for a 2bbl slant 6 carb, and while researching and shopping, I keep reading that reman carbs are no good, but there is never an explanation as to why. What makes them bad? It doesn't seem like there would be any market for them if they were all as bad as they are made out to be. Did someone once have a bad experience and said that reman carbs are terrible, and then everyone else jumped on it, or is that really the case? (I know to stay away from Chinese!) Just looking for some feed back from the group while I'm still shopping!
 
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Never really had a issue. I used to work in a rebuilding shop and hardly any returns. Only thing I remember is that sometimes when thy acid dip them the can become porous.
 
I have used then with no problems for years and was wondering exactly the same thing . I have them on my 66 Valiant Signet vert, my 65 Valiant wagon ,my 76 Aspen beater , and my 71 Chevy rust bucket C20 pick up . They all work great and have for quite a few years now.
 
Hi all. I am looking for a 2bbl slant 6 carb, and while researching and shopping, I keep reading that reman carbs are no good, but there is never an explanation as to why. What makes them bad? It doesn't seem like there would be any market for them if they were all as bad as they are made out to be. Did someone once have a bad experience and said that reman carbs are terrible, and then everyone else jumped on it, or is that really the case? (I know to stay away from Chinese!) Just looking for some feed back from the group while I'm still shopping!
I've never bought a new carburetor in my life! Both my carburetors on my dual quads are freebies from Chevy guys who don't know how work on carburetors...
Is there not a rebuild kit for the one you have?
 
I've used a remanned motorcraft carb (to replace the motorcraft carb that came on my plymouth /6;-) I had to steal some parts from the old carb to make everything fit/work. You get what you pay for! As I removed some screws, they just broke off! If you plan to do any tuning, you'll want higher quality. If you just want to bolt ok something that'll work ok... They're ok.

By the way, if your looking for a used remanufactured motorcraft 2150 mounted on a slant 6 intake, I'll sell you one cheap;-)
 
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To say all remans are junk is painting with too wide of a brush. I've see good quality rebuilds. I believe the problem comes in when the rebuilder has an assembly line and each particular worker has a basket of say... jets behind him or her, does he or she collaborate with the person installing metering rods??? It is common to find 2 different jets or metering rods in the same reman carb. I have a customer who owns a NAPA/ machine shop around the Canton area. He will not sell remans, due to the return rate. But, I think some quality, mass rebuilders get a bad rap by just being in the business.
 
I have been in the Automotive business since I was 16. I have rebuilt carbs all my working life. When I had a problem, which rarely happened, it was my fault. If I need parts, I scavenged them from cores. I have only bought four new carbs in my seventy nine years. Two of them were Edelbrock copies of Carter four barrels. Another one was a Holley spread bore. The last one was a Chinese copy of a Carter two barrel, which I had to rebuild and is on my '65 Barracuda .
 
I've used a remanned motorcraft carb (to replace the motorcraft carb that came on my plymouth /6;-) I had to steal some parts from the old carb to make everything fit/work. You get what you pay for! As I removed some screws, they just broke off! If you plan to do any tuning, you'll want higher quality. If you just want to bolt ok something that'll work ok... They're ok.

By the way, if your looking for a used remanufactured motorcraft 2150 mounted on a slant 6 intake, I'll sell you one cheap;-)
 
The story on rebuilds is that all the bases get removed and thrown together, all the bowls, power valves, horns, etc go into the same hopper media cleaner and then get put back together. With modern manufacturing processes going back the Henry Fords assembly line, all these pieces should be the same. Yeah....also some parts come with a teflon cladding/coating from the factory (TQ throttle shafts, choke plates, etc) and when they get bead blasted clean, this coating comes off. Now if they put it back on (Holley does in their TQ rebuilds) is up to the rebuild plant. So your in essence getting a very clean carb made with parts from 30 carbs, but all the specs are correct. I dont know. I never bought a rebuild so I have no experience on them but the OEM NOS one I bought for my truck started on the first crank and idled dead on at 650 RPM just like the manual said it was supposed to. Trouble with a 1920 rebuild is the bowl cover, most are already bent at the ears from years of cranking them down and some reportedly wont even seal.
 
I have been in the Automotive business since I was 16. I have rebuilt carbs all my working life. When I had a problem, which rarely happened, it was my fault. If I need parts, I scavenged them from cores. I have only bought four new carbs in my seventy nine years. Two of them were Edelbrock copies of Carter four barrels. Another one was a Holley spread bore. The last one was a Chinese copy of a Carter two barrel, which I had to rebuild and is on my '65 Barracuda .
How did you find the running of the Chinese copy of the 2bbl Carter ??
..I bought 1 brand spanking new unused, as the new price was too good to pass up (elect choke too) but haven't run it yet...looked it over & appears pretty well made (some Were off the Chinese Jeep assembly line).
Cheers T.
PS encl some pics for benefit of other readers ( Venturies are bigger Dia than BBD but same Dia throttle blades & carb mount hole spacing (small) )

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When I bought my car there was a carb like the one you have on it. Manufacturer name stamped on the body was Holley. I thought I had seen all Holley models but I had never seen a Holley that looked like that. It ran like ran like crap so I figured I would clean it up and possibly repair it. I took it apart, cleaned it, and tried to put it back together but the little parts in the accelerator pump were to hard to assemble and some broke. I threw it in the trash and bought a Chinese copy of a Carter BBD two barrel off eBay for $80. The Carter BBD is the factory installed carb for the 273. The Chinese copy body casting and every thing else looked great when it arrived but upon installation it barley worked. The accelerator pump spring was way to heavy. I had to use three springs to get an idle. It kept flooding and ran terrible. I tore it apart and found it hadn't had any adjustments made at all. The throttle plates didn't even close. The throttle shaft was sloppy and sucking air. They had just slapped it together. A lighter accelerator pump spring was found at Ace Hardware, of all places, and I made all the proper adjustments to the float and other parts. I went Elderly Auto, in West Linn, Or, and bought a BBD core that had a tight throttle shaft and replaced the Chinese throttle body. The car now works fine. As for a picture of the carb, the repair manual has them.
 
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When I bought my car there was a carb like the one you have on it. Manufacturer name stamped on the body was Holley. I thought I had seen all Holley models but I had never seen a Holley that looked like that. It ran like ran like crap so I figured I would clean it up and possibly repair it. I took it apart, cleaned it, and tried to put it back together but the little parts in the accelerator pump were to hard to assemble and some broke. I threw it in the trash and bought a Chinese copy of a Carter BBD two barrel off eBay for $80. The Carter BBD is the factory installed carb for the 273. The Chinese copy body casting and every thing else looked great when it arrived but upon installation it barley worked. The accelerator pump spring was way to heavy. I had to use three springs to get an idle. It kept flooding and ran terrible. I tore it apart and found it hadn't had any adjustments made at all. The throttle plates didn't even close. The throttle shaft was sloppy and sucking air. They had just slapped it together. A lighter accelerator pump spring was found at Ace Hardware, of all places, and I made all the proper adjustments to the float and other parts. I went Elderly Auto, in West Linn, Or, and bought a BBD core that had a tight throttle shaft and replaced the Chinese throttle body. The car now works fine. As for a picture of the carb, the repair manual has them.
Sorry you had a rough run...but are you SURE your BBD Base mated up to Chinese Carb OK ??? ...I've just gone through the New Chinese one here & apart from the grease/wax plugging the Jets ( Which they Warn you about PRIOR to running) it checked out Fine ! INCL the throttle body, throttle plates close up fine, snap shut fine, NO excessive bushing slop ( in fact they could've built more in )...
Electric Choke just operated fine...
I'm fairly confident with this one pictured as it currently stands & you've got a Photo or 2 to back up my writings too.
Cheers T.

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The problem with most any remanufactured part these days is that most likely it's been reboxed and or relabeled. I hate that with a passion. We have all types of reman parts come in all the time in a different box but relabeled with a brand that we carry. So, ultimately, you don't know who in HELL that part came from.

TOMCO for example, USED TO BE a good source for quality reman carburetors. Over the years, through reboxing and relabeling, they have lost some of their street cred. I "think" they are still a good reman company. Problem is, you might get somebody else's box with a TOMCO relable on it. That's not a real TOMCO reman carburetor, but somebody else's BULLSHIT.

Add to all that, THIS: Lots of parts are sold daily. Lots of those same parts are returned. Either they were the wrong part, or they were defective, or the customer found out they didn't need it....whatever. Those parts are returned for "whatever reason". THey are supposed to be inspected, so that we can decide what KIND of return to do, OR if we need to return it at ALL.

If a product that's been sold SEALED for example comes back opened for a return, whether it's been used or not, it's supposed to be a warranty return. That way, it does not get new returned and put back on the shelf. Same goes for known defective parts. Problem is there, a LOT of employees both with our company and others as well don't give a crap enough to open the box and look, OR they are just plain too stupid to know the proper return procedure. So, you get more bad parts mixed in with the already defective parts that were there to start with.

Honestly yall and this is the truth........none of the carburetors that we deal with is hard to build. Get a book. Read up on it and LEARN to do it yourself. It's not hard and is very rewarding. Plus you know it's done right if you do it yourself. You don't have to depend on Jerome and Chaniquia to do their jobs right, because that's probably not going to happen.
 
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