Carter BBD 2bbl replacement

I don't have a answer to replace the carb. I did just rebuilt my BBD and it works perfectly now. For $20.00 you can maybe teach your self how a/this carb works. I do recommend a carb cleaning bucket kit from NAPA if they have them there. The worst thing that you can do is screw it up and then look for a replacement. But it' not so hard to do. The instructions are pretty clear with the exploited view included.

Actually I will go along with only about half of the previous post. The Carter BBD is by itself actually an excellent carburetor if not a bit complex. However it is about half the size at 193CFM that the engine can actually handle so a bigger carburetor will actually give quite a bit of an improvement in performance. I generally if doing a carburetor swap on the AMC I-6 go straight to the 400 CFM Carter AFB. A swap I am doing on the 232 I am building at the present. But that is not a solution either when the basic problem is that the mired of vacuum lines under the hood run the odds of being hooked up incorrectly by any definition and have been for years effectively screwing up the operation of the engine. If the vacuum lines are correctly routed and the smog system correctly adjusted the engine performs quite adequately if not slightly poopy. It is capable of mpg readings approaching 30mpg and at least holding steady legal freeway speeds in every state in the union if the hills are not too steep. They are rebuildable and the average rebuild kit instructions if carefully followed are complete enough to rebuild them with and Carter BBD owner's manuals are available as free down loads on the internet along with instructions in the AMC TSM's to get the job done.
As far as bolt on replacements, the problem will become one of getting transmission linkages to work correctly as there are no direct bolt on replacements. However that has to be dealt with when installing a 4bbl too. So I agree the carburetor is the general scapegoat, but it is rarely actually the problem.
I hate to say it exactly this way but when someone says they do not know much about carburetors and then asks for information on installing different ones, that in itself is a recipe for disaster. It means it is time to start learning about how to deal with them so that what ever is wrong with the one that is on the car, can be corrected to run as it should. If it can be. Whole sale replacement is not a solution if the problem is not the carburetor itself.
If you do not have a vacuum diagram for your car and you would like one, if I know if it is an automatic or standard transmission and it has an I-6 or a 4 cylinder engine I can post a vacuum diagram that can be used.

Edited by uncljohn - Mar/11/2015 at 3:59am

Since his isn't computer controlled, it's likely an issue with the screws through it being loose. If you can twist the carb body, it's too loose.Then crossing #1 and #6 plugwires at the cap can backfire the crud out of the jets. Coupled with a really good system cleaner and making sure the fuel filter has the 3rd line in the 12:00 position, this tends to cure most of the BBD issues on non-computer controlled ones.