Suedes Car Club
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: OlDad on July 11, 2005 8:05 pm
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Does anyone have a single barrel Rochester carb in good shape for a 1960 Chev 236 6 cyl? Or maybe a complete engine that doesn't look like a mosquito fogger when it runs?
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I think I have a single barrel off of a 1965 230 ifn' they are the same.
CJ on here may have one too.
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Eyeball, how do I get in touch with you? The carb is on the car my son bought Sunday. I can see if we can find a number on it tonight. I know it's a Rochester. A kit won't help, it's leaking around the bushings.
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I'll put a pic of it up on here tonight. I will PM you my cell #
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Thanks Eyeball! By the way how do I find your Private Message to me and how do I open it? I'm not up on all the fancy computerized stuff.
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On the left once you log in, under the menu there is a list that says Who's Online. You should be one of them listed. To the right of your name, there should be a ( with a flashing one in it. Click on it, and it should open your new private messages.
Alternatively, you can select Private Messages from the Main Menu on the left under Things to do...
Hope this helps!
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Also, at the top of this page you can click on "Profile" and fill it out so I have you email address.
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Well.....bad news, it's a carter..
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If I've got anything, it would be out at 31Rodder's house. All I've got here are a few Holley 94's.
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Ill check a few of the old inline sixes I got around, I think one is a 235. Maybe theyll be a rochester on them.
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Well, here's the latest. Last night my son said he's ordered a new carb. It should be here Thursday. Also we pulled the valve cover. He's going to install new valve seals. When the cover came off, we discovered the broken intake rocker arm. I guess that could help explain why the thing runs like crap. I'm checking today for a new rocker arm. With the new carb, rocker arm, valve seals, plugs, points, wires, etc. it should be running pretty good by this weekend for its maiden voyage. Oh yeah, it's getting new shocks too. The original 1960 units are still on the car. We found an invoice in the glovebox for a new muffler installation in 1988 and they suggested that the shocks be replaced back then. I guess it's time. Thanks for all the help.
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So what is this in? BelAire? Biscayne? Impala? 2 door? 4 door? I don't remember seeing an intro from ya, so feel free to tell us all about it! :-)
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Okay, I just spent 15 minutes writing a great disseration about my life, hit submit and it disappeared. I will try again. My name is Carter Sandvik. I live in Fargo. My youngest son Rob just picked up a '60 Chev Biscayne four-door Sunday down in the cities. He has always liked '60 Chevs and thought this would make a good driver. It was advertised as a 24,000 mile car. Some signs point to it being 24,000 miles others point to it being 124,000 miles. As we've found out many times in the past when it comes to old cars, don't count your chickens before they hatch. The Chev needs some work but the parts are cheap and we can do the work ourselves. Hopefully, it will be on the road this weekend. Rob is 25, he bought his first car, a '56 Plymouth, when he was 15. He still has the car. He also has a '60 Chrysler Windsor hardtop taking up half of my garage space. It's in the works, but Rob is fixing up a house and that takes much of his time. My wife and I just sold our house of 18 years and bought a fixer-upper so I haven't had much time in the garage either lately. Between the two of us we've had quite a few '67-'72 Chev pickups over the years. My daily driver for the past seven years is a '71 Chev Super Cheyenne. I have a '65 Dodge Polara 2 dr hdtp. that my folks bought new at Balmer Motors in Moorhead. They had it the first 20 years and I have had it the last 20 years. Each one of my four sons have used the Dodge as a daily driver at one time or another. It's changed colors a couple of times and even made a few appearances at the drags. A couple years ago we decided to clean it up and get it back on the road again. We just finished painting it this spring. My oldest son has had a couple of '69 Chargers (including a General Lee now owned by Jeff Phillip) and a '70 Charger. I've had a '60 Chrysler hardtop and a couple '57 and '58 DeSoto hardtop projects that I had to sell before I finished. In '97 I had a '65 Dodge Monaco hardtop in the Toppers Show and Rob had his '56 Plymouth there. A couple years ago Rob and I had a '28 Ford Roadster hot rod in the show. I began reading the old "little" car mags back about 1957. In 1958 a kid who worked at my grandmother's grocery store in north Moorhead gave me a '58 Ford convertible model kit for Christmas. I took some clay (before I discovered bondo) and customized it. I haven't been able to take my hands off cars (real or not) since then. I love old school rods and I read Ol Skool Rodz. I was a newspaper reporter/editor in various small towns for the first 18 years after I got out of school and the for the past 18 years I have been writing catalog ad copy for Swanson Health Products in Fargo. I found your website shortly after it went live, but I just officially logged on this week.
Carter Sandvik
Carter.sandvik@swansonshealth.com
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Welcome aboard! What took you so long?!?! BTW sounds like an impressive collection over the years and currently. You should bring something over to the cruise nights so we can admire!
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And the saga continues. After checking most of the places in town today, I can't find anyone who can get their hands on an intake rocker arm for the 235. Everyone has them listed, but non of their parts suppliers has any available. I guess the Chev won't be on the road Saturday. We'll probably be at Al's in Glyndon looking for a rocker arm. If anyone has one sitting on the kitchen table at home, my work phone number is 356-2859 and my home phone is 237-5630.
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wowcars--you should call your uncle keven,and see if there might be one up there somewhere
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And the saga continues. After checking most of the places in town today, I can't find anyone who can get their hands on an intake rocker arm for the 235. Everyone has them listed, but non of their parts suppliers has any available. I guess the Chev won't be on the road Saturday. We'll probably be at Al's in Glyndon looking for a rocker arm. If anyone has one sitting on the kitchen table at home, my work phone number is 356-2859 and my home phone is 237-5630.
Check with Wayne Rude at Quality Engine & Machine