This 1971 Fiat 850 Sport Spider was purchased new by a Ford engineer who then drove the car only 7,200 miles over the next 17 years. The little Fiat then passed on to his daughter and her husband who added a scant 2,200 more between 1988 and 2012, and as a result of...
[weaver_youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP0Ddtcc4Hc rel=no] It is probably no surprise that I like car shows. I mean who doesn't, right? There is a show on the National Geographic channel called Car SOS. Master mechanic Fuzz Townshend and radio and TV host Tim...
I came across this Fiat 850 Carburetor Spec Sheet from the Fiat 850 Group on Yahoo. The pdf I found there was cool in that it was a scanned copy from an vintage document but it didn't lend itself well to searching and finding on Google. So I retyped it into a...
Searching on eBay is like the digital age's version of scouring junk yards. I found a rebuild kit on eBay for the Weber 30 DIC and I wondered if it would work on the 30 DICA. In fast I have seen references to a DIC-1, -2, -3, and A. So I emailed the guy and asked him...
The Weber carburetor was designed to be totally adaptable to any size engine, for any purpose, at any altitude. There is no such thing as taking four of these out of their boxes and bolting them onto an intake manifold, and away you go. It simply isn't done that way....
All Weber carburetors carry a model number stamped at the base of the carburetor on its mounting flange or on the top cover. A Weber carb is designated with a series of numbers, then letters, then sometimes, more numbers. The first set of numbers is called a prefix,...
When I was a kid my brother and I would sometimes go with my Dad to junk yards to look for parts for whatever car he was fooling around with a the time. That is my Dad and my little brother with me looking on in the picture. He was always into american cars....
Carburetor Icing And Heat Carburetor icing is an icing condition which can affect any carburetor under certain atmospheric conditions. While it applies to all carburetors, it is only really a problem in association with piston-powered aircraft, particularly small...
Carburetor adjustment Too much fuel in the fuel-air mixture is referred to as too "rich"; not enough fuel is too "lean". The "mixture" is normally controlled by adjustable screws on an automotive carburetor, or a pilot-operated lever on piston-engined aircraft (since...
A carburetor basically consists of an open pipe, a "throat" or "barrel" through which the air passes into the inlet manifold of the engine. The pipe is in the form of a venturi — it narrows in section and then widens again, causing the airflow to increase in speed in...