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. :rock-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.
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What a great site, autoporn for the petrolhead