Looking for Carburetor rebuild kit

[Tedredamphi]

:032:I am looking for a carburetor rebuild kit for what I believe to be my Amphicar carburetor. Amphicar came with no carb installed but a box of 5 carbs of various manufactures. The one I believe to be correct is a Solex 30PSEI with a stamping of LC81 (very faint and not sure of this number) on the side. Dissassembled the carburetor and it looks to be in pretty good shape, just needing a rebuild.
So where can I find a rebuild kit for this thing???
Thanks,
Ted Matthews
Texas

 

[jwillia]

Gordons had them at one time check there. I may have a spare but not home now.



jeff Alaska



To: jeffreyd_7@hotmail.com
Subject: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20423] Looking for Carburetor rebuild kit
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:35:51 -0400
From:




I am looking for a carburetor rebuild kit for what I believe to be my Amphicar carburetor. Amphicar came with no carb installed but a box of 5 carbs of various manufactures. The one I believe to be correct is a Solex 30PSEI with a stamping of LC81 (very faint and not sure of this number) on the side. Dissassembled the carburetor and it looks to be in pretty good shape, just needing a rebuild.
So where can I find a rebuild kit for this thing???
Thanks,
Ted Matthews
Texas

 

[Bilgemaster]

Sorry that I've got no rebuild kit for you, but I'm pretty sure that
Hugh Gordon must still offer one. The real reason that I'm piping in
here is to tell you that the 'Members Only' area of the club website
should still have a copy of the entire Solex manual in PDF format titled
"Solex: Selection and Tuning of the Carburetor." And in case you're not
yet a member (Ummm...Why not? You some kind of
maverick-gotta-do-it-the-hard-way type?), a google search of the full
title should coax up another copy of it out there somewhere.

Regards,
Bilgey

On Sun, 17 May 2009 10:25 pm, jwillia wrote:

> Gordons had them at one time check there. I may have a spare but not
> home now.
>
> jeff Alaska
>
> To: jeffreyd_7@hotmail.com
> Subject: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20423] Looking for Carburetor
> rebuild kit
> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:35:51 -0400
> From:
>
> I am looking for a carburetor rebuild kit for what I believe to be my
> Amphicar carburetor. Amphicar came with no carb installed but a box of
> 5 carbs of various manufactures. The one I believe to be correct is a
> Solex 30PSEI with a stamping of LC81 (very faint and not sure of this
> number) on the side. Dissassembled the carburetor and it looks to be in
> pretty good shape, just needing a rebuild.
> So where can I find a rebuild kit for this thing???
> Thanks,
> Ted Matthews
> Texas
>
>

 

[Tedredamphi]

Just found the carburetor rebuild kit in the Gordon Imports catalog. Just hope that they have some in stock. Thanks for the info in the Solex Tuning Guide in the members only section. And yes Bilgey, I am a member.
Thanks,
Ted

 

[Canadian four amphs]

I carry every bit and piece for rebuilding Amphicar carbs, even the tiny return springs on the choke butterfly.
I have 100s of middle gaskets and have made a bunch of general kits up,there not listed in my parts book but,are $45.00
parts 07-5 to 07-58 are on my sheet of parts
GORD SOUTER>

 

[awoodc]

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Ted, I have 'em. Email me: amphicarparts@earthlink.net
Allan-----Original Message-----
From: jwillia
Sent: May 17, 2009 10:25 PM
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Subject: RE: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20423] Looking for Carburetor rebuild kit






Gordons had them at one time check there. I may have a spare but not home now.



jeff Alaska



To: jeffreyd_7@hotmail.com
Subject: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20423] Looking for Carburetor rebuild kit
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:35:51 -0400
From:



I am looking for a carburetor rebuild kit for what I believe to be
my Amphicar carburetor. Amphicar came with no carb installed but a box
of 5 carbs of various manufactures. The one I believe to be correct is
a Solex 30PSEI with a stamping of LC81 (very faint and not sure of this
number) on the side. Dissassembled the carburetor and it looks to be in
pretty good shape, just needing a rebuild.
So where can I find a rebuild kit for this thing???
Thanks,
Ted Matthews
Texas

 

[Tedredamphi]

Gordon Imports has them on back order!!!!
Ted

 

[amphigr66n]

Hi ted; Did you try kip motor parts in dallas? I think I got one there along with generator and starter etc. kipmotor.com Amphigreen.


--- On Mon, 5/18/09, awoodc <> wrote:

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> Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 11:24 PM
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> Ted, I have 'em. Email me: amphicarparts@earthlink.net
> Allan-----Original Message-----
> From: jwillia
> Sent: May 17, 2009 10:25 PM
> To: awoodc@earthlink.net
> Subject: RE: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20423] Looking
> for Carburetor rebuild kit
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> Gordons had them at one time check there. I may have a
> spare but not home now.
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> jeff Alaska
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> To: jeffreyd_7@hotmail.com
> Subject: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20423] Looking for
> Carburetor rebuild kit
> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:35:51 -0400
> From:
>
>
>
> I am looking for a carburetor rebuild kit for what I
> believe to be
> my Amphicar carburetor. Amphicar came with no carb
> installed but a box
> of 5 carbs of various manufactures. The one I believe to be
> correct is
> a Solex 30PSEI with a stamping of LC81 (very faint and not
> sure of this
> number) on the side. Dissassembled the carburetor and it
> looks to be in
> pretty good shape, just needing a rebuild.
> So where can I find a rebuild kit for this thing???
> Thanks,
> Ted Matthews
> Texas
>
>
>

 

[Bilgemaster]

Assuming the carb's all there, maybe it's pretty much OK or at least
serviceable, and for at least the time being you could get away with a
trick my Dad told me they used to work when he was a mechanic in the
Army in the '50s in France, often reviving old WWII Jeeps,
Deuce-and-a-halfs and even DUKWs that had been mothballed since VE Day:
When the carbs were clogged up with lead and other deposits, they used
to pull them off, shake out the acorns and just toss them into a small
barrel filled with Marvel Mystery Oil to "marinate." After a good long
soak they would haul them out, slap them on and presto!

I did that with my old Norton's super-simple Amal Concentric carb that
looked like the inside of one of the Luray Caverns when I got it as a
"basket case," and it spritzed along just fine after I got the rest of
the plot screwed back together (with an oil supply-return system poached
from a Lady Kenmore washing machine and other make-do scavengings of the
"Max Max" sort).

Regards,
Bilgey

On Tue, 19 May 2009 12:28 am, Tedredamphi wrote:

> Gordon Imports has them on back order!!!!
> Ted
>
>

 

[Steve]

I carry every bit and piece for rebuilding Amphicar carbs, even the tiny return springs on the choke butterfly.
I have 100s of middle gaskets and have made a bunch of general kits up,there not listed in my parts book but,are $45.00
parts 07-5 to 07-58 are on my sheet of parts
GORD SOUTER>

Gord, do you still have any of these kits? I'm looking for one.

 

[Ron Trudeau]

FINALLY. I got Rons comp so i can chat in Fl.
I will be back in shop on Monday the 20th/I have lots of carb kits
GORD
gord@amphicar.ca