Found: Old school Holley carb

[papabug71]

I was at the inlaws today looking thru one of the numerous junk piles & came across a pile of old carbs. Mostly QuadraJet's & a couple of Autolite 2100's. But the one that got my attention was this one. Its a Holley 4bbl, single inlet. I bet its been sitting out in the weather for 20+ years. Im afraid all it is now is an old Holley paperweight.

It has a FoMoCo tag on it that reads: C3TE F A 3ED
It has a Ford # on the air horn that reads: C3TE-9510-F
& it also has a Holley PN that reads: 2151-1

Any of you guys that can decode the #'s please feel free to do so. All I can get is 63' truck, engine.

[fordman]

does the linkage move? throttle shafts? and upp butterfly? if they are froze up trash it. if they move pretty good you could rebuild it i guess.

[papabug71]

Yeah thay are froze up pretty good. The guys at pony carbs said if it will move, they can rebuild it. Im going to let it sit in a bucket of solvent for a couple of weeks & see what happens.

What motor did Ford put in a truck in 63' that required a carb this big ??

[lsevenpj]

Hi. I came across one of these carbs a few years back. The one I found came off of a big Ford(F600?) truck. That big mechanism on the side is a governor assy. Can't remove it because it's made into the base plate.

[papabug71]

Hi. I came across one of these carbs a few years back. The one I found came off of a big Ford(F600?) truck. That big mechanism on the side is a governor assy. Can't remove it because it's made into the base plate.

That would explain alot of things. They have 4 or 5 old F-600's/750's running around, & they were all converted to propane years ago.

[FORDification]

I entered the number into Google, and FORDification was the first result:

http://www.fordification.com/bumpwiki/i ... aster_List

1961-63 Ford Trk., 292 Eng.

[Ranchero50]

Yeah, it's a governed big truck carb. Not worth much by itself, but probably worth parting out. I have one down in the shed from somewhere.

Jamie

[papabug71]

Cool beans. I knew it was an older carb at first glance with the old Holley lettering & all. Too bad its all locked up.

[fmartin_gila1]

Back in the day, that carb was on all our 534 CuIn equipped larger C Models we had in the fleet.

Fred

[hotrodfeguy]

Is that a 600 CFM? I have one in my garage thats in good shape, just needs a rebuild.

[papabug71]

Im not sure of the CFM on it.

fmartin_gila1, I forgot all about the monster 534 Ford put in the big trucks. Alot of the old peanut trucks around here had that motor.

I wonder if you could change the base out with a non-governed base ?

I polished it up last night. Looks good. & it works great as a door stop !!