Where to buy Carburetor Rebuild Kits.

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SSD recommended Daytona Carbs so that's where I got mine. They use updated materials that are compatible with today's fuel. Call them with the number off your carb, they were very helpful.
 
Don't like the Daytona fuel inlets.
Goofy so-called improvement. :rolleyes:
The link to Mike's looks promising as it shows different kits for the different versions.

Don't know what your 2150 is for.
Mine's for a late AMC and I don't see that in the Carb Doc listing.
 
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Mattax said:
Don't like the Daytona fuel inlets.
Goofy so-called improvement.
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…which isn't actually theirs. It's their name on what Tomco used to call their "Duro-7" inlet valve. Patented in 1962, patents here and here. I find they do make an improvement—a small one, not a huge one—over the OE pointy-rubber-tip type of inlet.

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No Dan. Daytona's doesn't meet the description of the claimed improvements in said patents.
Regardless, glad it worked well for you.
 
Mattax said:
No Dan. Daytona's doesn't meet the description of the claimed improvements in said patents.
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Maybe not, but the "Daytona Float Valve" in the Carter BBS and BBD carb kits I bought from them was an identical, exact match for the "Duro-7 valve" in the old-stock Tomco Carter BBS and BBD carb kits I had on the shelf at the same time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Well you can look in the photo I posted and see that its one piece, not a seperate actuator and plug. That's also what they illustrate as SSS on their website. So Daytona's is just one of a number of attempts to uese resilient material flat against a raised seat. Not really new idea. It's used in some toilet bowl inlets and the globe valves in many an older house. :)
 
Mattax said:
Well you can look in the photo I posted and see that its one piece, not a seperate actuator and plug.
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The "Duro-7" and the "Daytona Float Valve" both came/come in different configurations depending on the application—just like OE inlet needle-seat assemblies. This is kind of a silly argument, LOL.

Not really new idea.
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Now it's an even sillier argument; we're both saying the same thing. 8-)
 
slantsixdan said:
The "Duro-7" and the "Daytona Float Valve" both came/come in different configurations depending on the application—just like OE inlet needle-seat assemblies. This is kind of a silly argument, LOL.



Now it's an even sillier argument; we're both saying the same thing. 8-)
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Wasn't arguing that. LOL. Was saying it doesn't meet the patent claims. The patent claims one its innovations is the reversible plug that rocks on the actuator. That is what Tomco is showing. It's not what Daytona shows on their website, or delivered with the 2150 kits.
 
Around 1982 my daily driver was a 1966 GTO 3x2. Hi-Octane gasoline had basically disappeared from the Chicago area so we were using additives (something like 104+?, etc.) which helped but accelerated needle wear especially on the center carb. I put in the Super Tomco kits with the washer style needle/seat assemblies and never had to mess with the carbs again. Last year when I wanted a couple of kits for my AFB style carbs I called Tomco and they put kits together with those needle/seat assemblies, same price for other reputable kits. That being said, the regular needle assemblies available today are made of much better material and will stand up 100% better for today's fuels than what was available 40 years ago. I just figured if the Tomco's were available I'd get them based on my past experience with them.

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