Fantastic Online Resource for Gearheads

[Stretch]

I'm in the process of cleaning and rebuilding the carburetor from my fire department's restored 1962 Ford F-850 Super Duty fire engine.  It's a Pirsch (defunct since '82) custom-built open-cab (no roof) engine built on the Ford truck chassis, with a 534 V-8
(8.75 liters), dual exhaust, and a manual 5-speed.  

It's quite a rush.  -1

We bought it new in '62, and for some reason we sold off every other retired fire engine except this one.  It was quietly reposing in a quiet fire station on the outskirts of town, when a few of us put our heads together and proposed to restore it, which we did in 1995-96.

Anyhoo, the carb was starting to act up, so I pulled it this afternoon and found a rebuild kit, still available from NAPA.  

A few minutes of black-belt Google-Fu came up with a scanned authentic 1968 Holley carburetor manual, complete with exploded-view illustrations.

Here:  http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/ (http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/)

This site has hundreds of old car, truck, and equipment manuals and brochures scanned and archived for your immediate use.

I was so happy, I PayPal'd them a twenty.

[John Stenhouse]

What a great site, autoporn for the petrolhead