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.
Order Hygrade kit #903A it covers all the 5200 electric and water choke. Fred :)
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.
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.