what carb???

what carb should be fitted to a 1.8 clipper

and should it a weber??? or are they after maket??

pierburg mate

Pierburg,yak no good on astras or cavaliers,give me a weber anyday
Bert

If you having 'pierburg' carb trouble, replace it with the webber conversion,manual choke..just done it due to advice eon this board, wish i'd done it earlier!!  try eurocar parts (?216) or theres a guy on ebay, pm for his details…very very knowlegable, sells refurbished webers & pierburg (with 12 month warranty) ?110, plus you get ?30 back on your old carb, guy has 100% positive feedback

chally34uk said

If you having 'pierburg' carb trouble, replace it with the webber conversion,manual choke..just done it due to advice eon this board, wish i'd done it earlier!!  try eurocar parts (?216) or theres a guy on ebay, pm for his details…very very knowlegable, sells refurbished webers & pierburg (with 12 month warranty) ?110, plus you get ?30 back on your old carb, guy has 100% positive feedback

Hi chally34uk

Just looking through some of threads on the forum, and found yours

Please can you let me know the details of this ebay contact for webber carbs.

The link below is form my recent issue if you want to have a look

Many thanks

Martin

http://www.vwgolfmk1.org.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=70622

The pierberg was standard, and for some reason they are rubbish. Most guys seem to opt for a weber aftermarket carb which is and OEM fitment when the pierburg expires. Mine went wrong for no good reason!

Its a bit unfair to call it rubbish but it is a more complicated carb, thats why people pick the weber ones  :wink:

Madferret said

Its a bit unfair to call it rubbish but it is a more complicated carb, thats why people pick the weber ones  :wink:

i totaly agree, a pieburg is more complicated, more technology and more thigs to go wrong, but weber need a person to adjust the choke,

all that said I have to say, i've just bought a weber.


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I don't think sarcasm gets anyone anywhere!
From my group of friends several people have had negative experiences with pierberg carbs, many of them on vauxhall novas in days gone (before the nova rotted to nothing.
Carb's should be relatively simple, less to go wrong, Pierberg carbs are just too unpredictable.
My views have good grounding as mine stuck at 3000 rpm and I had a really unpleasant experience as a result.

sorry if you found mu post offensive,

can I also say that I've shared your experiences, having to swith engine off in lights then pulling off while steping on the brakes to not hit the car infront.
And i've also had a go a fixing my pierburg with another one which was obiosly taken off because it had the same broken bits as mine, and now I've bought a weber(which should arive in the post today).
But I've not swaped to a weber because the pirburg is pants, its because as a mechanic, I'm pants.
But as a lover of technology I can apreciate how good a pirburg is.
I had the same conversation with my mate Barry, who said theres no need for a water choke and an electric one, and a little willy thing that gets exited and revs the pants of your engine, all the time, but the little willy thing only revs the pants off because its not working corectly, if it was working normally it would stop your engine cutting out and nothing else.

As he said ^^ (apart from the little willy part, not sure to what he was referring   )