ok i have a 1960 plymouth valiant with the 170 slant six.....i use this as my everyday driver. or did. i need a new carburetor, it has a 1 barrel carter on it now that the previous owner screwed up and stripped most of the screw holes, i got it rebuilt enough to drive for a while, but then yesterday it totally flooded out and when it fired, BOOM, the carburetor exploded.
so now i need a new one. and i cant find any and dont know what will and wont work....ive looked on advanced auto parts and the 1960 carbs are out of stock completely, and the only thing that is available is a 1962 but i called and they said it will NOT work on a 1960......

im at a loss, i need any help i can get as to what carbs can i buy to fit my 1960 plymouth valiant without any major modifications??????? im not a mechanic so if you have any ideas, please list and names and numbers for the carbs so i can look them up.

look in these two threads here in the FS section. im sure they can hook you up, they should work, i dont see any differences as to why the wouldnt. though im not the most "informed" guy on carbs for the older slants.
http://www.slantsix.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47137
http://www.slantsix.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46816

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1976 Plymouth Feather Duster
2002 Dodge Dakota 4.7l v8

I have a brand-new carburetor (not "remanufactured" junk) for your '60 Valiant. Send me a PM on here if you'd like to buy it.

The Holley 1945 linked in the thread above is not applicable/will not fit your Valiant.

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dan,
is there some kind of filler he could by to fill the holes in the carb for mounting. then just re-tap, or is there not a tap/threader in that size you can buy at Home Depot,ect. just wondering..

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1976 Plymouth Feather Duster
2002 Dodge Dakota 4.7l v8

I am trying and failing to understand what you are asking/suggesting.

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Casually looking for a Clifford hyperpak intake for cheap.

yea reed you got it, i was not how best to describe what i was asking. going more along the lines of my electronics, couldnt he use some kind of "solder" to fill the holes then re-tap/drill them.

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1976 Plymouth Feather Duster
2002 Dodge Dakota 4.7l v8

The impression I got was not not there was a stripped bolt hole, but that the carb physically came apart. Even if it didn't, it is highly doubtful that the carburetor would ever function properly and remain "watertight" if it was epoxied together. Mating surfaces wouldn't align, cracks could be in small internal passages that the epoxy wouldn't reach, the epoxy could plug passages that shouldn't be, etc...

Completely theoretically, JB Weld makes several epoxies that the company claims can stand up the gasoline and even set underwater, but would you really want to chance it?

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Casually looking for a Clifford hyperpak intake for cheap.

I thought he was asking if he could fill and re-drill the manifold to accept the later model carburetor.

My advice, buy Dan's carburetor. That is a terrific opportunity, with minimal effort.

Sam

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i think i just confused my self, no harm, no foul. my bad guys..

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1976 Plymouth Feather Duster
2002 Dodge Dakota 4.7l v8

OH! Yeah, I think you are right Sam. I skimmed the post a little too quick.

I have tried using JB Weld to build up a carb mounting pad and at least the normal JB Weld gradually dissolves on exposure to gasoline.

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Casually looking for a Clifford hyperpak intake for cheap.

The later carburetor will bolt directly to the early manifold. Then it'll sit there uselessly because there's no way to connect the '60 Valiant throttle control to the Holley 1945 carburetor. Choke won't hook up, either. There'll be a bunch of unusable vacuum connections, too.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Alright, so it's the carb not the intake. Well, hypothetically lets say any particular person wanted to fill the hole i'd just fill it all up with a welder on slow making sure there is no empty space that way you got metal and not epoxy, as Reed said, that can dissolve mixed with gas. I can't say the viability of this idea.

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'73 Scamp (the girlfriend): 225ci super/6 2BBL conversion (Almost done!)
'90 Subaru, wagon (the wife): H4-cyl 2.2L

1977 Mercedes-Benz 300D, 5cyl diesel(For sale!)

Fantastic, Rosetta Stone was discovered, old carb repaired with JB Weld, solder, and spot welding, but it still lacks several key components previous owner striped as described above. In its resurrected state it is still a defective fifty year old chunk of metal.

Why bother with all the messing around, just purchase the NEW carburetor Dan has, and drive with confidence. How easy is that?

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82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC

Surprised no-one mentioned "heli-coil inserts". I thought that was the standard in rethreading stripped holes (assuming there's enough metal left)? Especially on aluminum holes, where one could gain steel threads.

I'm still curious how the carb "blew up". Did it scatter pieces?