During my ownership attention was paid to safety, reliability, improved handling and performance (minor). Overall condition: Very good, a driver car. I found her in Rangely, ME where she was kept in a climate controlled garage and driven 500 miles in 5 years. Dubbed the Satin Doll, she was a ribbon winner in small shows. The car was repaired and mostly cosmetically restored by a previous owner, a NASA engineer, in Ohio in the early 2000’s. History: She was a midwest car most of her life, undercoated and garaged by all accounts. I’ve been unable to find suitable storage/maintenance space nearby for my 61 TBird so I will sell it.ġ961 Thunderbird Hardtop, owned since 2013. The primary venturi cluster has the number 8 stamped on the bottom.I’m February 2022 my wife and I will be moving to a retirement community in VA Beach. The inside of the power valve cover has either a 6 or a 9 stamped on it. The bottom of the secondary fuel bowl has RA2 stamped sideways on one side and B stamped on the other side. On the inside of the primary fuel bowl cover is stamped RA1 1 Notice the 1P stamped in the lower left (not sure what this indicates). The left side of the primary fuel bowl with the 1.19 (primary venturi size) and the number 5752425 (part number) in the upper left. Please note that this carburetor was rebuilt once before I got to it, probably sometime in the 70'sĪfter cleaning and rebuilding (before bowl cover). It may not be as pretty as a Pony carb, but I like it the way it is. The carburetor is old enough that most of the plating is gone, but I think it still looks good in it's "natural" form. I thought you might like to see some before and after photos, as well as the various identifying numbers. I finally got around to rebuilding this 4100 1.19 carburetor. Based on what I have read from several other sites, this 4100 1.19 is rare because it was only used on some 1958/59 Mercury 383 engines. Instead, it has the part number (5752425) stamped on the primary fuel bowl, oriented vertically, to the left of the 1.19. It does not have any part number (or anything else) stamped on the toe. My carb has a 1.19 stamped in the circle on the primary fuel bowl (1.19 primary venturi size instead of the 1.12 that should be on a 1961). However, it appears that when the carb was rebuilt by someone else many moons ago, it was swapped out for the one that I have now and the ID tag from the original was put on the rebuilt one. I was under the impression that the carb from my 1961 is original since I was told that it is and because it has the correct ID tag screwed on the front right corner of the bowl cover. Carburetors on 1962 Tbirds may also be C2SF-B or C2SF-C (Ford 4V) or C2SE-A and C2SE-E (Holley 2V). The last letter, A, means that it was the first design for the casting of that carburetor. F is the design code and indicates the source of the part in this case, the Electrical and Electronics Division, Product Engineering Office. S is the product line code for Thunderbird. C2 is the manufacture date: the letter is the decade, C = 60, and 2 indicates the date is 1962. You are right - your carb (C2SF A) is correct for your 1962 Thunderbird. Any insight at all will be greatly appreciated! Could this carb have come on my car? More importantly, how do I set up this carb? For example, float level settings and a few other things are different for a 1958 Mercury compared to a 1961 Thunderbird. I bought a rebuild kit for the carb (NAPA Echlin 2-5401), which will work for the Autolite 4100s back to 1957. The carb does have the correct ID tag for my car (LSA 1TB). In addition to the 1.19 number stamped on the left side of primary is the number 5752425. I now have the car and what I believe to be the original carb in a box, but it is a 1.19. All of this happened before my involvement with the car. In 1980, the original was put in a box and a Cardo Automotive FV-63 was put on the car. The original carb was rebuilt by someone else many years ago. My '61 Tbird has been in the family since 1962. I read on another site that the 1.19 only came on a 1958 Mercury. Any chance whatsoever that an Autolite 4100 with 1.19 primary venturi could have come original on a 1961 Thunderbird hardtop? The only carb that is supposed to have come on the '61 Tbird is an Autolite 4100 1.12.
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