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Author:  Sean Mallory [ Thu Aug 07, 2014 5:58 pm ]
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A guy is selling 2 of them locally. Just wondering what you guys think of that carb.
Author:  Fopar [ Thu Aug 07, 2014 7:28 pm ]
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The glass bpwl cover was used for years, but due to the possibility of breakage was replaced by metal. :shock: :lol: :lol:

Richard
Author:  GTS225 [ Fri Aug 08, 2014 3:32 am ]
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I plan on using a pair on my T.

How much is he asking? If you pass on them, I might be interested.

Roger
Author:  Sean Mallory [ Fri Aug 08, 2014 6:41 am ]
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I'm gonna pass. I was wanting to know about the 1904. Here ya go
http://albuquerque.craigslist.org/pts/4572006360.html
Author:  GTS225 [ Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:28 am ]
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Thanks Sean, but at $125, I'm gonna pass, too. They're not as rare as he thinks.

Roger
Author:  1930 [ Fri Aug 08, 2014 2:42 pm ]
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Thats tough, never seen them before, couldnt figure out what you guys were talking about. What was the point behind that?

Were they avail for the BBD?
Author:  Reed [ Fri Aug 08, 2014 2:45 pm ]
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Not available on the BBD since the entire center casting of the carb would have had to have been glass. Available to be able to diagnose fuel isses. Clean fuel? Fuel flow? Float setting? Crud in the bowl? Etc…. No need to disassemble the carb to check tose things since the bowl is glass.
Author:  SlantSixDan [ Fri Aug 08, 2014 5:11 pm ]
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Glass bowl: nifty and keen but very dangerous. Fits on a 1920, but you lose the anti-slosh baffle present in the 1920's metal bowl.

1904 carb: Way, way, WAY smaller than you want to use, even as a pair.

How 'bout a pair of new Webers?
Image
Author:  nm9stheham [ Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:14 am ]
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Sounds like something for a stationary, industrial engine, not a car.
Author:  SlantSixDan [ Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:45 am ]
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The Holley 1904 was, in fact, an actual, real, gen-u-wine car and truck carburetor. Ford and International put Holley 1904s on various inline-6 engines in the '50s through early '60s.
Author:  1930 [ Sat Aug 09, 2014 1:03 pm ]
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Thanks for the replies guys, you wouldnt guess what I found today unless I showed you so here it is Image Went to the salvage yard today and there it was on a 61 Ford.

Thirty years of going to salvage yards and I have never seen on. Its got neat written all over it.

I just have to put this bowl to use at some point on my 1920.
Author:  nm9stheham [ Sat Aug 09, 2014 6:21 pm ]
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Thanks for sharing! The whole concept of a glass carb bowl and the info above that that were put on actual auto engines just boggles my mind. I wold havae liked to have seen one new in a showroom and heard the sales ptich around that.
Author:  slantzilla [ Sat Aug 09, 2014 7:03 pm ]
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I used to have one. Can't remember what happened to it.

All cars used to have glass sediment bowls on them. They were pretty mucha fire hazard.
Author:  SlantSixDan [ Sat Aug 09, 2014 9:12 pm ]
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Thanks for sharing! The whole concept of a glass carb bowl and the info above that that were put on actual auto engines just boggles my mind. I wold havae liked to have seen one new in a showroom and heard the sales ptich around that.
The Holley "Visi-Flow" carburetor, it was called. It really is boggling, isn't it, to think what was done back before any real consciousness or understanding of vehicle and traffic safety, eh!
Author:  nm9stheham [ Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:53 am ]
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Now I want to rig one up on my race car and see the looks on their faces in tech inspection....!!! LOL I have seen numerous old glass bowl fuel filters and water traps but not carb bowls.
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