Poll: What carburetor do you have?

auto5man

Bigger Hammer
Feb 4, 2011
78
Memphis, TN
Willys Model
Willys Year:
I'm interested to know the various carbs people are running on their ORIGINAL Willys four and six cylinder motors. Please state your motor and carb, model # of carb would be nice. I'll start: have the 6-226 Super Hurricane, as purchased it came with a Carter YF 938 SC, which is not correct for this engine. I'm now rebuilding the correct model carb, Carter YF 2467 S.
 
my 63 has the 230 ohc motor with a holly 1 barrel 1920 carburater very difficult to find a kit for ( it is NOT the same as a rambler with the glass float bowl. most of these motors have a two barrel holley, guess i got the odd one.
 
We have a '65 wagon with 230 OHC Tornado six, it has a Holley 2 barrel - model 2300 Tag: R-2415-A. I'd love to update to Fuel Injection but it would be expensive...
 
I've switched around quite a bit. I went from the original correct 1bbl Carter YF (that I still have in case I want to go back to original), then stepped up to a marine 500cfm 2bbl Holley 2300. That was a little too much carburetor, so I found a Holley 94 (actually the later AA-1 variant) and that's what I'm running now. Something is up with it, and it's running so rich I'm getting gas in the oil. I just haven't had the time to take it apart and see what's going on with it. I may be moving to the original 2bbl Carter when I obtain a factory 2bbl intake manifold, but I absolutely love the nostalgia of the Stromberg 97/Holley 94 design!
 
Our doodlebug is a 1960 L6-226 4X4 and it has the Carter YF-2467S. Very simple carb, I can take it apart, blow it out and put it back together in the woods, and I'm not a mechanic. When I park the old girl for the winter I unplug the electric fuel pump and let it run out of gas. That seems to help as far as keeping old gas out of the system come springtime
 
My 54 wagon 226 is running the two bbl Carter 2204S model carb. It's pretty worn out, so I'm going to take it to be rebushed and fitted with an off road kit, so it'll perform well when climbing at angles. Paul Barry at Willys America likes to swap these out for Rochester units, but I don't want to play around with linkage swaps, so I'll spend the money on this one.
Steve
 
aquawilly54 said:
[...snip...] Paul Barry at Willys America likes to swap these out for Rochester units, but I don't want to play around with linkage swaps, so I'll spend the money on this one.
Steve
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One version of the Rochester 2G carb will bolt directly to the two-barrel Super Hurricane manifold without an adapter. Apparently the 1963 Checker had the L6-226 engine, and some came with the Rochester 2G carburetor.

Based on my limited experience, it's a very good carburetor and quite simple to rebuild.
 
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I rebuilt the standard YF2467 carb (it originally was leaking gas onto the manifold and not in great shape) and managed to get the standard cake tin oil air filter to use with it. After testing the rebuilt unit I packed that away for future use if I ever show her and then purchased a Weber 32/36 manual choke carb which comes with the correct adaptor plate carbs only. It's basically a straight forward bolt on upgrade however I have still to complete and fabricate a new accelerator linkage. Also had to install a fuel pressure regulator to reduce the fuel pressure to no more than 3lbs.
 
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1957 pickup with 226 flathead running a Carter YF2467S carb. Purchased as an exchange from KW. Very happy with it.

Gary
 
I have a F-6 161 with a carter YF single barrel anyone know if this is the right one for this? I think my eng came out of a 54 aero arrow
 
After getting the wagon on the road yesterday, when it ran smoothly but weaker than expected, today was a day to refine the performance.

Fix 1: The throttle linkage wasn't opening the throttle all the way. Adjustment made.

Fix 2: One of the gaskets was constricting the airway. The rebuild kit must have included a gasket for a different version of the
carburetor, and I hadn't noticed because it fit in other respects. The diameter of the gasket was about 3/16" to 1/4"smaller than the throat of the carburetor. Maybe it's supposed be that way, but I trimmed it to the same size as the carburetor.

Fix 3: Adjusted the float levels. These were off a little in both directions, but probably not enough to affect the performance. In truth, I thought the bowl was overflowing because the carb was wet around the base, but upon further inspection, it turned out to be oil, no doubt from the oil bath filter.

Fix 4: Adjusted the idle screws.

Out for another run, it was much livelier, more like I thought it should be.
 
GreenMtnMan said:
Our doodlebug is a 1960 L6-226 4X4 and it has the Carter YF-2467S. Very simple carb, I can take it apart, blow it out and put it back together in the woods, and I'm not a mechanic. When I park the old girl for the winter I unplug the electric fuel pump and let it run out of gas. That seems to help as far as keeping old gas out of the system come springti
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I do the same in all gas equipment that I keep.
 
My 59 wagon has the original L6-226 and a YF 2467. I just put a kit in it and it works well.
 
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