Carb questions...

[19bonestock88]

A little intro...
The truck is a 1988 ranger, 2.0/2bbl, m5od, 2wd...

Back in april, i posted about killing the engine, only to find out that i wiped out the flat tappet cam... I swapped in a roller and kept going...

Anyway, i think the carb is about shot...

As some might remember, i pressurized the intake when the cam messed up, and the carb wasnt entirely right, but i ran it anyway...

It is now running so rich you can smell the fuel out the exhaust from probably fifteen feet...

It is becoming increasingly temperamental in cold weather, often requiring five to ten minutes of trying to start/ trying to warm up before it is remotely driveable...

Probably losing compression due to the insanely rich fuel mixture...

Anyway, i want to fix this issue while there is still a useful engine to save... I can buy a carb from an 80 mustang(i think its the 5200) for a shade more than the cost of the rebuild of the stock POS carb... I also have access to a free holley 6280 if that would remotely work(doubt it though)... Would the 5200 bolt to my current intake? Throttle linkage issues? Fuel pressure regulator needed?

All opinions and/or input welcome and encouraged!

Thanks in advance...

 

[Mikel89us]

The 5200 bolts on. Liknages are the same too o think...

 

[19bonestock88]

I need to be 100% sure that the carb will work before spending 200 clams on one... I just want the truck to run properly again...

 

[Kenneth S]

The 5200 will not directly bolt on, the Asian 2 bbl carb that's on there now has a queer to itself bolt pattern, and the linkage is different. So you will need to make some sort of adaptor plate for a different carb, plus re-work the throttle linkage some.

 

[19bonestock88]

Thats disappointing... Looks like the weber kit might be my best option...

 

[Kenneth S]

You could try to find a 1979, and later carbed Mustang 2.3 D-port intake, they had 5200's on them, while the intake ports won't be an exact match it can get you by in a pinch. Another plus on the Mustang D-port intake is should you find, or build a D-port headed 2.3 to replace the 2.0 you can remove the adaptor for the 5200, and run a 350 cfm Holley 2 bbl.

 

[Mikel89us]

You could try to find a 1979, and later carbed Mustang 2.3 D-port intake, they had 5200's on them, while the intake ports won't be an exact match it can get you by in a pinch. Another plus on the Mustang D-port intake is should you find, or build a D-port headed 2.3 to replace the 2.0 you can remove the adaptor for the 5200, and run a 350 cfm Holley 2 bbl.

+1 the dport head is better, and easier to find.

 

[Mark_88]

My 78 intake was from a Mustang II and it had the 5200 on it...can you get the intake from the person selling the carb?

If so, it would save you a bunch of running around as it is a direct bolt on for the engine regardless of the ports. I've seen the same intake on e-bay a few times...

I had originally put this intake on a 2.0 head and it worked OK...only real problem I had with it was the float started rising beyond the proper setting and it would flood out...easy fix though if necessary.

 

[19bonestock88]

I found the carb on rock auto... No intake included...

 

[19bonestock88]

Does anybody have either an intake/carb combo from an old mustang, or a functional asian carb?

 

[Mark_88]

Ah, OK...I guess shipping might be a bit of an expense for an intake...but I'm sure someone has one somewhere...did you check the parts for sale threads?

 

[19bonestock88]

Yeah, i looked there... I even went back a couple pages just to be sure... I scoured eBay hoping to find the intake... Found a carb for like 30 bucks but i cant use it without an intake... Found several EFI intakes though... Wonder if something like what is found on, say, a liter sport bike(gixxer or similar) could be adapted for use? Would it flow enough, say, about 230-250 CFM?

 

[Mikel89us]

I want to do a street bike carb setup on something. If you have the round intake ports, you could easily make an intake to use them. It would probably be easier to use dirt bike carbs , because they are cable run and it would be easier to sync them, you would have to make a new rod setup to adapt street bike carbs which are hard to sync in their original configuration. It wouldn't be easy, but it would be awesome when done.

 

[19bonestock88]

I am not sure if i could actually find such a setup, it was a less than serious inquiry...

At this rate, my options are:

Get an EFI lower and adapt a 4bbl carb... Probably way too big for the stock 2.0, but could be made to function, sort of...

Buy the weber conversion kit, spend more, but end up with a pretty good result that will probably outlast the rest of the truck...

Build an intake manifold, use whatever carb i feel like!

EFI conversion... Probably by way of 2.3 swap...

Let the carb trash my 2.0, swap in something else...

 

[Mark_88]

Well, I wasn't actually looking for an intake or carb the day I found mine...it just was sitting there on the top of the heap and when I climbed up and found it...it was like love at first sight! I just happened to have enough cash on me to buy the whole thing...cost me around $150 at the time...but I know I couldn't buy one now for less than $500 in that configuration...

I'm sure you will stumble across one when you least expect it...so make sure you have some cash in your pocket when you do...

Not sure where you are but if you were in Canada I would offer you mine...it would cost way too much to ship the thing even in Canada...must weigh about 40 lbs or more...and it's aluminum mostly...