Quote Originally Posted by pennyman1 View Post
Or if its used it is marked made in Italy - then you got the Holy Grail. Bet you didn't know that the Edelbrock carbs are also Webers, and that the new Carter carbs are Webers too.
Brother I wish I knew now what I didn't know back in 2007 when I made the initial Weber conversion.

The DGEC model that Weber Direct sold me is a piece of junk. (To be honest I don't even know if they even sell it any more. I suspect it was promoted at the time by Weber Direct due to them or some other global corp or entity that needed to rid themselves of over stocking.) It cannot be tuned properly and with a size of 300CFM the case can be made that it is too small for a 2.6 litre engine.

That combined with my disability from 2 strokes (I have a one-track mind now unfortunately) has culminated in a nearly a two week delay in completing what should have been done back in 2007. I am waiting for the primary jets that I re-ordered last Wed 6/24. Plus I will end up with an extra DGEV because I erroneously bought another one from Ebay thinking I needed it. The good news is that I got a brand new one at a great price (less than what I paid for the one I got from Pierce Manifolds) and I can easily recover that money back if I choose to resell it. But...big but...I like the idea of having an extra one for parts. But...bigger but...they are known for not having parts that wear. But being on disability, I prolly don't drive enough for that to really be a concern.

Most of the delay was caused because Pierce sent me the wrong idle jets when I when I talked to them on Mon. 7/22. They sent secondary idle jets when I needed primary idle jets. I had ordered those jets 2nd day air because I needed them fairly quickly to get the truck running. 2nd day air for parts that fit in the palm of your hand and a standard business envelope was around 30 bucks from Cali. I never asked at the time of the order how they were sending the correct jets- turns out they sent them standard ground shipping from Cali to NC. That takes a week. So the damn things will not be in my hand until 8/1. *sigh*

All of this has been a "learn as you go" experience for me. Once I learned that the DGEC was junk, that's what started this whole ball rolling. So it will be two more days at the earliest before I can give a road test report.

The removal of the top of the carb was very telling. The secondary barrel is quite "carboned up"- the secondary was obviously too rich. But when the primary idle jets do 80% of the lifting @ 2500 RPM and lower as opposed to the mains and the idle jets and jet holders are made into one part and the jet size is not changeable...there are not even different sizes to do the "trial and error" thing...you get the picture...no wonder the truck had so many drivability issues that cannot be corrected w/o putting a 'proper Weber' on the motor.

You guys have been great. I look forward to writing a post about my road test and first drive with a real Weber on the motor.

'Ol Reliable has a tremendous will to live and survive. It is almost mythical...