Hello everyone, I want to change the carburetor for my 1986 Ford E250-XL. It has a 5.8L engine (H-engine code), automatic transmission, 4BBL. I went shopping at Pep Boys, Advance Autoparts, etc. So many choices that I am not sure what it is that I need. Any suggestions will be helpful. Thanks.

The Edelbrock 600 is a good, simple carburetor and is plenty enough carb for a 5.8. Is your old carburetor worn out or in need of a rebuild? If not, then changing to an aftermarket carburetor will make little if any difference in performance.

If I remember correctly your engine has a square-bore Holley 4 barrel carb, right? I’d replace it with another Holley. I’d look online or go to a local parts store that has someone that still knows something about carburetors. You should be able to get a replacement that bolts right on without too m…

The parts store should be able to find a stock Carb for this, they were built by Holley just for Motorcraft but Auto zone offers stock ones. Others should too. From what I can find these were around 600cfm stock.

It’s been 20+ years I even worked on a carb. But Eldebrock makes a good replacement carb. I replaced a carb using the Eldebrock (I forget what number)…on a 77 Dodge. It was a direct replacement. The only thing I had to modify was the gas line. It needed to be about 2" longer (if I remember correctl…

You can never go wrong with a Holley. There are other good carburetors out there but Holley is the best in my opinion.

I’ll agree with the “buy Holley” posters here to a point. Holley’s always had a problem with part throttle fuel mixing. Nobody could beat them at wide open but Carters and Quadrajets metered fuel better at part throttle. That said, the aftermarket has a buch of choices in Holley replica carbs that h…

I’d get a rebuilt one from Rockauto, it’s $450 including core charge. Or I’d get a high-quality stock rebuilt from a local shop. I’d rather not try to figure out how to make a non-stock carb work, given all the emissions controls that might be affected, all the vacuum hookups that might not match …

Am I the only one who thinks texases works for RockAuto? ;-]

Thanks everyone. Your responses were very helpful. I went to take a look at the carb, and its a Holley. I could not find a model number, it just says “made for Motorcraft by Holley”. It does have the numbers 10236A printed on it, but when I searched online, those numbers did not match anything, but …

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Tester May 6, 2014, 5:48am 2

Unless there’s performance upgrades to the engine there’s no reason to to purchase an upgraded carb.

Buy one that most fits the stock application.

Tester

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