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I had trouble logging in for ages! Yes, I found this part soon after creating this thread. As this was circa late 2011 I cannot recall where I got it from.

Has anyone read this book yet?

Absolutely! I am leaving for Omaha for work shortly and will be away for work for a few weeks, but I will angle the carburetor like yours and make a new fuel line and eliminate that barrel. Much thanks!

And the K D Type B carburetor leaks. Not as bad as the Johnson (that would be downright impossible!), but still a persistent drip, as installed... The saga continues!

I did not realize there was a book about this. I have a clipping about this from the Wall Street Journal.

Thank you, Howard, for sending me this piece. Arrived yesterday...and I am most appreciative!!!

And a description so I can order on line. Hardware store does not have it not can they order it.

Howard, Where did you find the 90 degree 3/8" male-female end fitting that fits between the fuel line and carburetor?

I am not on Facebook. Can you rovide details?

I just mentioned this to someone the other day. I would not be in the market for a late model used car in the next several months. These have a good chance of having originated in the Houston area.

This is the bind I am in! I have contemplated selling my Model A just because of this! Have to stumble over everything just to get it out...temporary storage has turned into long-term, with a monthly rent. Just this weekend my wife said she found a better place... But, no barn, a typical McMansion (shouldn't those be illegal?), a huge monthly payment. Admittedly, I liked the small farm over there at the bottom of the hill with the bank barn a whole lot more.

Yes, of course it all boils down to money and priorities. In my friend's case, he already has several tractors and cars. It's just that he doesn't have room for one more. In my case, my wife wants the house in a development, so not much room for anything. Not my ideal choice, but that's what she wants. Learned from how she was raised--everthing had to be fancy and new as her parents haven't the foggiest idea how to fix anything, which is sad, when you think about it. BUT, my friend not buying that Model T, and the seller maybe having to lower his price, myself not raising my bidding card for yet a higher bid...although not quantifiable, has to be a real phenomenon. E.g., a lowered inherent value due to storage problems. Saw the movie Salem's Lot last night. I think the car in it is a 1959 Cadillac. They just don't make cars like that anymore!

Rural vs urban. Yes, more country roads to drive, probably more urban and suburban dwellers not so interested in antique autos. In my development, driving my old cars around does attract attention, but beyond that no one else here shows any interest in such things.

Really? Lots of open land in southeast Pennsylvania (at affordable prices)? That's essentially where I live and that's not the case. I would prefer to live much more rurally, but something annoying called a job (LOL) prevents me from doing so! I have two old cars, one in my garage less than a mile away, that I rent. Not having the car on my property, I have found, means I have done little with it. Having to drive over to get it, work on it, etc Is more inconvenient than one might think. Have to haul tools, not having the right tool, having to have limited access. Works for some, not so much myself. I regard it simply as dry storage until I find a better property someday.

Obviously, this is an immeasurable, and abstract, value, but it has to be "real". I was talking to a friend today and he mentioned he could have bought a Model T at a reasonable price a few months ago, but refrained from doing so, as he had nowhere to store the car. He stated, in an ideal world, he would have a 50 x 100 ft barn to store cars. Likewise, I refrained from purchasing a car at auction last month for lack of where to put it. I know a limited amount of folks, and if this is the case, multiply times numerous other folks in the same predicament, it has to lead to a suppression in value, in prices realized. Of course, an abstract concept, but it has to lead to a decrease to some degree, perhaps 20 or 25%, vs an 'ideal' world where all folks interested in antique vehicles have no limitations on storage capacity. Comments? Call it what you will, but urban sprawl, too much development, overpopulation (excess population, and not necessarily saying I'm not one of the excess), leading to (too) small property size, zoning restrictions, home owner associations and restrictions, etc, etc, all these things which were not problematic until the last several decades, have to cause downward pressure on antique car prices and values.

Okay, fair enough! I AM moving very slowly on this. Something called "work" gets in the way of my hobbies!

We're they helpful? Don't know how to depict a 3-D image that is curved, etc.

What's that supposed to mean? With other obligations and limited time and space to work on cars, things sometimes move slowly around these parts.

Okay, the lower toggle piece makes sense as being for the choke. I thought it would be similar to the choke on the Johnson carburetor. I thought of plumbing supplies to make this work, as AutoZone didn't have what I needed.

Howard, Here are some photographs with a tape measure.

Please refer to the attached photographs. Shown is the currently installed Johnson carburetor and the replacement K D Type B carburetor. This is what would have originally been on the Maxwell but the Johnson carburetor has been on this car the 6 years I have owned it. I have not ordered a Zenith carburetor as I already had a K D. I have not encased the cork float in an ethanol resistant material, and both are options. The K D float is not cork. To start with...this Johnson carburetor has always been problematic. Not sure why it was installed other than to replace an even more problematic K D??? So, right now, although the game plan could change, I will give the K D carburetor a try. I believe all threading is pipe thread, and it looks like 3/8" flexible copper tubing would work, flare the ends, and I think the end at the fuel line is 5/8"; threading at carburetor 1/2". Does this sound right? Reason why I ask is local Ace Hardware did not have pipe threading for what I needed so have To order on line. But, the issue at hand "that I just don't see", is how is the choke assembly affixed to the K D carburetor? I just don't see any such mechanism in place--but there just had to be such!

I started looking on eBay under Johnson carburetor, limiting to automotive parts, to restrict results. In addition to some parts carburetor, some synthetic modern floats come up. Any ideas as to what would describe my cork float such that it translates into the nomenclature of a modern float, such that the correct size might be ordered?

Howard, Where did you obtain the photograph as the source of the photograph should be able to oblige. Because I don't know how to measure something with irregular dimensions. But, if we can figure out how to measure, and reproduce accurately, we can duplicate. I have one to provide as a template but would like to accurately duplicate because one is missing.

1917 Maxwell. The Johnson carburetor would not have been original to the car but I don't know why it would have replaced the original K D carburetor other than perhaps because the original carburetor proved to be problematic???

I am having a terrible time with the Johnson carburetor flooding this year, despite rebuilding it. The cork float just doesn't operate properly. I have an original K D carburetor which is what would have been on the car originally. It seems to me the Johnson replaced a problematic K D. Without regard for historical accuracy, what functional carburetor would you use that encourages reliability? It seems to me all this stuff would operate properly if you could still get "real" gasoline in this country, but this is the subject of another thread.