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Title: Carburetor Help
Post by: Hobbesga on February 12, 2011, 02:52:10 PM
I need help, hence the post in this section.

I know that my car (a 1977 Pinto with a 4 cylinder engine) had either one of two carburetors in it from the factory. After looking at the diagrams, I know that mine is the Model 5200 series carburetor. The I.D. tag is missing off of it and I need to buy a rebuild kit. Inside the bowls it says "Holley, Licensed by Weber". The car came from the factory with A/C so it has the automatic (I'm lacking the proper vocabulary here) kickdown to raise the idle RPM when the compressor engages. I'm pretty sure that the carb is a D7EE series, but I don't know how to identify the exact model. So when I try to order the kit from someplace, like say Autozone, it pops up 3 items. Out of those three the first two are likely candidates. I've narrowed it down to, I believe, 4 possible carbs; D7EE-(BGA, BHA, BLA, & BMA). Now the first kit goes with either of the first two, the second kit goes with either of the second two. So, I've now got it down to a 50% SWAG (scientific wild a$$ guess).

Help me out here guys. What do you all know about the carbs on these things that can help me figure it out. I don't even need to figure out the exact model, just get the right one between my two options. Any information would help.
Title: Re: Carburetor Help
Post by: Fred Morgan on February 12, 2011, 03:27:07 PM
Order Hygrade kit #903A it covers all the 5200 electric and water choke.  Fred   :)
Title: Re: Carburetor Help
Post by: Hobbesga on February 12, 2011, 07:26:48 PM
Well, I may do that yet, but I did find a stamped number along the bottom ridge of the carburetor housing that was R-7950 that a local auto shop I called was able to cross reference. I never did find out what the difference was, but they were able to find me a set of gaskets and a needle and seat based on those numbers.  Depending on how cheap the gaskets look when I go to pick them up I may definitely have to take that bit of advice on. I appreciate you responding so quickly, but I was impatient and the shop said they could get me everything I needed to rebuild the carb for les than $30. That remains to be seen, but that bit of information on the rebuild kit needs to be prominently displayed somewhere else on this forum. I tried searching through the posts, but couldn't find that tid bit anywhere.

Then again, maybe I'm just inept at searching through the forum.
Title: Re: Carburetor Help
Post by: tinkerman73 on February 12, 2011, 08:10:43 PM
Interesting. Who knows what questions will be lurking ifnwhen I go to rebuild my spare motor! Dont know if that one used to have a/c, but it does have the power steering pump on it! Who knows what all will be entaailed! LOL.