Any on have any experience with the YF carb as a replacement for the Rochester "B" on a 216???
I'm on my fifth "B" and they are all warped and leak at the seam of the air horn and bowl. Two I have heat treated on a fixture to flatten them out after 50+ years of Zinc "creep" and one I actually machined the surfaces in the Bridgeport mill, they were flat to within .0005" until you tighten up the four screws. I don't mean WRENCH down the screws, Just tighten them a moderate amount and you can see the outer edges just curl up. So if I'm ever gonna get to pull her out of the garage this summer it looks like I'm gonna have to throw in the towel and pull the original style carb off and replace it with something that is half way reliable.
Jon, aka: Carbking, has suggested a W-1 as a replacement, and someone else mentioned a YF2100. I'm not familiar with either one so I can't make a comparison and I haven't been able to find any manuals of either one. I have a manual for the "B", they are readily available, however they only cover the early models and nothing is mentioned about the later "B" models. There were quite a few modifications to it but if it was documented it must be hidden away in somebody’s dusty files.
Anyway, I'm open to any and all sort of information.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
