Latest updates guys! I made a smoke machine. This is what I came up with, I connected it to my manifold vacuum port. I put tape over the center carburetor so no smoke would escape. Applying smoke, I found smoke coming out of the hole on the carburetor hat.(center carb) It's a hole where the accelerator pump lives. Next, I found smoke coming out of a vent tube on the front carburetor. The rear carburetor showed no evidence of smoke coming from the throttle plates. So what's everyone's thought on why there smoke coming out of these two places? Do I need to plug them up? Remember, I'm trying to chase down a vacuum leak.
Thanks!

I did get your PM and messaged You back Thanks. The Model 59 End Carbs are 46-48 Car. The middle is an 8BA which is 49-53 as far as I can tell. The earlier 46-48 Carbs don't have the Vacuum hookup for Distributor. Started with the 49 Flathead. The Spark Advance Valve started in '54 as shown in my Parts Catalog. I will be changing the Bases on the end Carbs to the Ones You went with.Block off the Power Valves also.

  

oldcarmark,

I sent you a PM, but I don't know if it went through.  I did a quick search and found that the end carbs you have are flathead era, and apparently desirable model Holleys.  

In regards to how to set up the center carb for vacuum, I think that you will need a different base.  I went and looked at my spares, and they both have the spark valve/economizer.  I know that they were definitely Y-block era Holley 94s and are the largest venturi ( 1 1/16").

I put in two links that you might find interesting and informative.

49bomb, 

any new progresss?

Holley rebuild article

model 59 Holley

Soffian Adam
Jamestown, NY
59 F100, 55 Club sedan

The Center Carb on mine does not have the Spark Control Valve in the Throttle Body. Carb is stamped "Ford" on One Side of Float Bowl but Blank on the other Side. The 2 End Carbs are identified as "59". What do I need to do to Center Carb to make it Ported Vacuum? There is a Plug in the upper Carb Body as shown in Teds Article. What model 94 is the Center Carb with no ID on it?.  

  

He has quite a bit of really cool items.  He machines just about everything.  The air cleaner covers are solid aluminum and great quality.  I did decide to paint the centers.  Just my take on it.  Dick is a great guy to deal with, extremely knowledgeable, and he'll make sure everything is working now and in the future.  He is direct and to-the-point when you talk to him, but I wouldn't hesitate to work with him again.

Let me know if you have any other questions.  The fuel lines are polished stainless.  He'll bend them any way you can dream up, if you decide to have him make them for you.

In case anyone was interested, I posted the link to Ted's article in my previous post.  It's here if you don't see it.

Modifying the Holley 94


Soffian Adam
Jamestown, NY
59 F100, 55 Club sedan

OK 59F100, I now see these are from Dicks, for some reason, I have never stumbled onto his website. He has a nice alternative to the normal air cleaners, and other cool stuff 

Really nice looking set up, fuel lines look cool! Are they stainless? What air cleaners are you using? Don't remember seeing those around and I'm looking for something different for my 55. So I like making up my own fuel lines using AN fittings. I guess from my days of working on aircraft in the Navy. Something hot rodders brought home after WW II. 

Two main reasons: 1. I wanted the progressive linkage to be visible and easily accessible on the left side. 
                               2. All the 3x2 setups I ever see all look the same with the same three bent lines.  I wanted something different.

Soffian Adam
Jamestown, NY
59 F100, 55 Club sedan

Looking at your picture,is there any particular reason why you ran your fuel log on the passenger side and made yourself all that extra work to bend those fuel lines? Mine are on the driver side quite easily made. Just curious?

I've been very interested in this post since I just set up my Edelbrock 553 last fall.  I can't speak from years of experience, but I can tell you what I've done.  I originally bought all the rebuild parts from Charlie at Vintage Speed.  I put new plates under the secondaries (without idle screws) and installed power valve plugs when I rebuilt them.  I'd have to look back at the kit and invoice to see what size power valve I put in the primary.  I had 5 carbs to choose from when I was rebuilding, but all of my carbs were the bigger 1 1/16" venturi.  I installed everything onto the manifold and hooked up the progressive linkage, but I didn't get any further than that 3 years ago.

Last fall, I contacted Dick York (Dicks' Hot Rod Carbs) and talked to him about building fuel lines for me.  I ended up sending him my manifold and carbs, and he proceeded to check over my rebuilds.  He found a few things that I had done incorrectly (float levels, replaced the seal on the power valves and plugs to be compatible with ethanol fuels, and changed my jets).  I had no idea what jets to use, so I just re-installed the jets that were there.  I believe we went with .051 in the secondaries and .055 in the primary.  (I may be wrong on that).  He said Holley 94s should only ever have 1.0-1.5 psi and did mention that everyone will tell you different, including Charlie.  [Both Charlie and Dick were amazingly knowledgeable and have years of experience in multi-carb setups.]   

Aside from a few fuel leaks, re-clocking the distributor, and air cleaner fitment, the motor runs great in my 59 F100.  It's been driven through town and down the highway.  I've only put a couple hundred miles since winter set in on us.  I'm running an MSD 8383.  The vacuum source is from the base of the primary carb, modified using the information in Ted's article.  The port in front of the primary carb is being used for the PCV.

Please excuse the picture.  I pulled it off a video I took of it running.  The valve covers will be replaced with Edelbrock covers in the spring.

For anyone looking to add a vacuum source, here's the link to Ted's article.  I did this modification for the single 2-bbl Holley 94 on my 272 in the 55 Fairlane and the 3x2 Edelbrock 553.

http://www.eatonbalancing.com/blog/2010/02/07/modifying-the-holley-94-two-barrel-for-late-model-distributors/



Soffian Adam
Jamestown, NY
59 F100, 55 Club sedan