Which carb rebuild kit to buy?

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Can anyone tell me how to find out the part # for my Holley carb Model 4160 that is the stock carb on my Polara? I expect to be getting a rebuild kit but they have several available for this model of carb. The front of the air horn has "List-6160" on it and 1801 right below that.

i am going on the assumption that the Holley 4160 kit does not fit all part numbers..........
 
I know I have said this many times, but I would recommend saving your money and your time and just get a new Holley if you want to keep that brand. After years of hot cycling and engine operation, the metering blocks warp on those original Holley carbs and I do not know of any reasonable way to correct that, not to mention that the bowls and everything else warps on that very heavy POS. Been there too many times. Personally, I just switch over to the Carter AVS carburetors, which can be rebuilt almost with your eyes closed successfully every time, or you can spend more money for a new Edlebrock. But you would need to change over the fuel line from the fuel pump to the carb and maybe some of the linkage to go to the Carters/Edlebrock. Chrysler used the Carter AVS on the 440 HP engines in 1970.
 
I might just repl it.......but i want a vac choke and vac secondaries on a 750 cfm carb........as close as possible to bolt on and go
 
That's what I'd do Mark, seriously. I run the newer Holley on the 383 in my vert and its a great carb. You're just going to end up banging your head against the wall with that old carb.
 
Chokes are electric or manually operated. No vacuum chokes.

Edelbrock 1407 is a 750 CFM manual choke. Plenty for a 440. You'll need a mounting plate adapter and a throttle linkage adapter and manual choke cable kit. You can add an electric choke to this carb down the road if you want.

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Can anyone tell me how to find out the part # for my Holley carb Model 4160 that is the stock carb on my Polara? I expect to be getting a rebuild kit but they have several available for this model of carb. The front of the air horn has "List-6160" on it and 1801 right below that.

i am going on the assumption that the Holley 4160 kit does not fit all part numbers..........

If you still want to rebuild the Holley 4160, these are the parts I used:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/hly-37-119
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/hly-135-4

I did it and all parts accept the Balance Tube Washers (o-rings) were in the kit. I bought 4x2mm (inner diameter x thickness) O-Rings on Ebay. They were exactly like the Stock washers.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181249145072 (in German)

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Yes it is, I hope it works for Julian as good as it looks! Mark has a different situation with his car though, the carb is the only thing keeping him from enjoying the car.
 
got something that i can use the orig choke thermo on?

Chokes are electric or manually operated. No vacuum chokes.

Edelbrock 1407 is a 750 CFM manual choke. Plenty for a 440. You'll need a mounting plate adapter and a throttle linkage adapter and manual choke cable kit. You can add an electric choke to this carb down the road if you want.

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Ok, it'a just an answer to the first question. The rebuild with soaking and polishing can be done on one weekend but to buy a new one is indeed a quicker but more expensive solution!

(I hope it will work as good as it looks)
 
Holly Custom Shop will do a total resto for less than the price of a NEW Holly. I have had a couple of them done and they come back looking great and seem to hold a tune better.
 
If you are dead set on keeping what you have, I would go with an AED rebuild kit. Comes with all the goodies needed to live withtodays ethanol fuels. Reuseable bowl and metering plate gaskets, viton needles and seats and even an accelerator pump diaphram that will laugh at corn grade alchohol.

But that Eddy sure looks real fine.....
 
Hey, I'm not officiallly back yet but I wanted to update this thread:

I finally got around to fixing the carb issue after trying several different things. Ended up replacing the 4160 with the Eddy 1407 after discussing it further with Will. Bought the carb, elec choke kit, linkage adapter and 1/2" spacer from Pep Boys this morning and worked on the car this afternoon. She's up and running, big difference from before. Only concern is maybe the idle will need a minor adjustment down, I did it by ear so it's prob off by a bit. Smooth acceleration though, I had forgotten how nice these cars are from 40-70 mph! The entire install went very smoothly, I couldn't have asked for it to be any easier. There was a problem keeping the car running right after I got done but once I figured out that I'd forgotten to put the pwr brake plug in the back of the carb (huge vac leak) the prob was corrected in 90 seconds.

And of course, took the car for its first top down ride of the season, just got back abt 20 mins ago.
 
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