Smartin Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 Looking for a factory carb for a 62 Skylark with the 215 4bbl. The one on my client's car is the wrong year and fuel inlet housing hits the air cleaner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skylark4367 Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 There's an ad in the Buick Club of America Magazine, the Buick Bugle, from a retiring carburetor rebuilder who is selling his inventory. I bought a rebuilt carburetor for my 1962 Skylark from him. He was easy to deal with and I found the price reasonable. PM me if you don't have access to the Buick Bugle and I'll forward you his contact information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintage1 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Try also https://www.vintagepartsource.com , there is a page dedicated to Buick parts suppliers and a page dedicated to Fuel System suppliers, there might be someone listed that can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbking Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 There were two different, one for S/T, one for A/T. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted November 10, 2021 Author Share Posted November 10, 2021 It's an auto. Thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancemb Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 23 hours ago, Skylark4367 said: There's an ad in the Buick Club of America Magazine, the Buick Bugle, from a retiring carburetor rebuilder who is selling his inventory. I bought a rebuilt carburetor for my 1962 Skylark from him. He was easy to deal with and I found the price reasonable. PM me if you don't have access to the Buick Bugle and I'll forward you his contact information. Yeah, I bought one from him too. It was supposed to be rebuilt, but wound up being a core as it had to be taken apart and redone. It wound up being the most expensive core I ever bought. @Smartin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted November 10, 2021 Author Share Posted November 10, 2021 lipstick on a pig! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-g-g0 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 6 hours ago, lancemb said: Yeah, I bought one from him too. It was supposed to be rebuilt, but wound up being a core as it had to be taken apart and redone. It wound up being the most expensive core I ever bought. @Smartin Whew! Almost bought one from the add. Glad I ended up having mine rebuilt locally! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1965rivgs Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 On 11/9/2021 at 7:43 AM, Smartin said: Looking for a factory carb for a 62 Skylark with the 215 4bbl. The one on my client's car is the wrong year and fuel inlet housing hits the air cleaner. Hi Adam, I`m assuming the correct carb is a Carter AFB? If so, do you know what the carter number is? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted November 13, 2021 Author Share Posted November 13, 2021 It currently has a Rochester, which could be correct…but the one on the car has a slightly different fuel inlet that makes the air cleaner sit on top of it. I suppose an AFB would be fine as long as it was the correct number. I’ll have to look in the chassis manual for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbking Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 All of the 215 CID 4-barrels were Rochester. This link will show you the various numbers: https://www.thecarburetorshop.com/Kbuick2.htm Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted November 13, 2021 Author Share Posted November 13, 2021 Thank you Jon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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