356 Carburetor Rescue Rebuild Kits An often neglected practice, rebuilds of your carburetors should be considered as much of a necessary maintenance chore as oil changes. While gaskets are good, and will last many years, they dry out and lose their effectiveness if your car is off the road for a length of time. The little o-rings on your pump jets or around the jet cover of your Zenith have the same problem. Keeping your carburetors clean and the gaskets refreshed will help you identify problems before they become major. Fuel leaks are especially dangerous as they equal FIRE! BY THE WAY, when that jet cover starts to leak DO NOT just tighten it down a bit more. This serves to pull out the bolt threads, an expensive repair, and ultimately bends the jet cover causing it to leak even more. We are offering our own Rebuild kits specific for Porsches. While the Walker kits and the Royze kits have been the only choice for many years, they are generic kits, designed to cover ALL Solex and Zenith carburetor useages. Using the same products we use in our Restoration work, our rebuild kits will be specific for Porsches only. They will include good European made needle valves. Gaskets are both European and American made. Some specific notes in reference to our kits: With the exception of the banjo bolts, we do not use fiber washers. We find them to prone to disintegration with modern fuels, and/or cracking as they dry out. Depending on where and how they have been used, we've seen parts end up in the fuel system. So we use copper or aluminum. Some of our aluminum gaskets are custom made for our purpose. If you prefer a fiber gasket for a specific part, please let us know, we may have them. accelerator pumps in Zenith. The leather skirt on these pumps needs to swell, as it absorbs gasoline, so it sits in the pump well properly. The new pumps use a different leather than the original, and it is made in a different way. Sometimes there is a bit of a lip on the skirt that might need to be sanded off. This is a trial and error process, one we do with our own restorations. Volume control screws for Solex. These are made on a special swiss screw machine (solid shaft). The phenolic ones are now NLA, the ones we have made are brass. Split shaft have different screws than solids. So none are in the rebuild kits. If you need replacements, we do have them available. |
| July 9 2020 right now we do not have enough parts to make up rebuild kits. Our European sources are scrambling to get their production back up and meet demand. |