Topic: 20R water choke weber?

[80firstgem]

i have an 80 with a 20R and i wanna convert to a weber. I have a water choke and ive looked everywhere and i cant find webers for 20R's with water chokes, they are all either electric or manual chokes.

Do they even make water choke webers for 20R's?

[wakkjobb]

After poking around on ebay last night, I can't remember seeing any; they have electric chokes from what I saw.

>>Dan

[ninja turtle]

toyota dgav 33b

i have one on my 20r

[80firstgem [OP]]

you have a water choke weber? where  did you get it?

[kneedownnate]

I have one on my 80 as well, 32/36 dgav.  DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!!!  Seriously, I can't yell that loud enough!  Get a good 22r carb, or get a decent one and rebuild it, get the 22r carb to 20r intake adapter from lc engineering, and run the 22r carb on your engine.  Much less picky, more dependable, and flows the same as the weber.

Again, don't waste your time or money on the weber 

[santa cruz crawler]

I have never had a prob w my webber !!

[Dr Phat]

Im a strong believer and converter to propane.

[80firstgem [OP]]

Im a strong believer and converter to propane.

id love to do that..if i had 900 bucks.

I pulled my carb off 2 months ago and had it rebuilt. put it back on and now it runs worse. it idles at about 4 grand. my boyfriend talked me into a weber.

[H8PVMNT]

I had a similar problem with my '80.  It would only idle above 2,000 rpms.  I ran it like that for a while and after fiddling with a bunch of things it ended up being caused by a crusty vacuum advance.  Now I can dial it in to idle at a reasonable rpm.

I suspected carb problems and I was considering buying a weber.  I even bought a rebuild kit but trouble shooting the other parts saved me buying a carb.

[83 Crawler]

id love to do that..if i had 900 bucks.

I pulled my carb off 2 months ago and had it rebuilt. put it back on and now it runs worse. it idles at about 4 grand. my boyfriend talked me into a weber.

dont get me wrong it would be sick to leave the stock carb on their but i think all  your emotions is just clogged or something so we should just check all that first. 

[80firstgem [OP]]

I had a similar problem with my '80.  It would only idle above 2,000 rpms.  I ran it like that for a while and after fiddling with a bunch of things it ended up being caused by a crusty vacuum advance.  Now I can dial it in to idle at a reasonable rpm.

I suspected carb problems and I was considering buying a weber.  I even bought a rebuild kit but trouble shooting the other parts saved me buying a carb.

whats a crusty vacuum advance? haha
like a crusty hose or the actual vacuum advance?

[H8PVMNT]

I replaced the entire distributor with a good used one but the problem was just the vacuum advance itself.  It finally got seized enough to fight with the mechanical advance and wiggle out the little set screw that holds it in.  So it basically was sticking out and saying "Here I am dummy!  Replace me!"  The truck ran crappy like that for a long time before I figured it out.

This may not be your problem but you have similar symtoms as I did and this is what my problem was so it's worth a shot unless you just really want the weber.  A new vacuum advance is like $120 so you will want to find a used one to troubleshoot. I got my entire distributor for $20.  It was off like an '82 or '83 22r.  I had to swap the pickup coil plug but other than that it was identical to my old one.

[80firstgem [OP]]

ill definitely check it out. id love to keep my stock carb anyways.

[santa cruz crawler]

Webbers are real simple , old holly 2 barrels work good to
Both of these carbs can ba found at the junk yard  or at old carb houses

[80firstgem [OP]]

Webbers are real simple , old holly 2 barrels work good to
Both of these carbs can ba found at the junk yard  or at old carb houses

ive had bad luck with carbs. truck sat for 4 years so i spent 135 getting the carb rebuilt and still have problems...worst problems than before. weber just seems like the easier way to go.

[kneedownnate]

You'll kick yourself.  Have somebody competent rebuild the toy carb and you'll be content.  As soon as I move, I'll be rebuilding a 22r carb, getting the lce adapter to put it on my 20r intake, and the weber will be going on ebay and here so some other poor sob can deal with the picky little pregnant dog!

[Dr Phat]

I got my propane system for a little over $700. Tanks are cheap too if you know where to look.

I just say propane because yes it is a little bit of an investment but my truck turned over with a tap of the key after I installed it. I was not dealing with a carb that had been sitting for 25 years. (My truck has 26,000 miles...hehehe) The price outweighed my time and the $100 here and $50 here for rebuild kits and miscellaneous parts.

[80firstgem [OP]]

I got my propane system for a little over $700. Tanks are cheap too if you know where to look.

I just say propane because yes it is a little bit of an investment but my truck turned over with a tap of the key after I installed it. I was not dealing with a carb that had been sitting for 25 years. (My truck has 26,000 miles...hehehe) The price outweighed my time and the $100 here and $50 here for rebuild kits and miscellaneous parts.

ya that would be nice to just turn the key and go.

[santa cruz crawler]

Find a used webber , call lc engineering buy a 30$ adapter red line it's called
And a filter kit for a 32 36
Instructions say 2 and a half out for fuel mix and the rest is cake
79coyote is good w that stuff also
Same w the old holly, same deal     
I run a webber there bad xxx  get a used one it will work

[santa cruz crawler]

I am looking for a push pull choke for a webber
For a friends truck  pm me if any one may have this
Sorry for the thread jack

[OOPS]

I have never had a prob w my webber !!

You are lucky!!!!

[OOPS]

I got my propane system for a little over $700. Tanks are cheap too if you know where to look.

I just say propane because yes it is a little bit of an investment but my truck turned over with a tap of the key after I installed it. I was not dealing with a carb that had been sitting for 25 years. (My truck has 26,000 miles...hehehe) The price outweighed my time and the $100 here and $50 here for rebuild kits and miscellaneous parts.

Propane is great, unless you live in California and is a DD. It will never pass the visual for SMOG.

[80firstgem [OP]]

You are lucky!!!!

haha god im so confused. half of the people are telling me to go with a weber and then i got someone telling me to propane my truck and the other half say dont use webers. 

[H8PVMNT]

Well webers seem to be working for about half the guys who use them, the other half hate them with a passion.  I've been getting up to 22 mpg with my stock carb on my 20r, so that, and the fact that my goal is to spend as little as possible on the truck rule out the weber for me.  If I got a free one I would probably try it...  I got my entire truck for $250 so it's a little hard for me to spend more than that on just a carb.

Good luck...

[80firstgem [OP]]

Well webers seem to be working for about half the guys who use them, the other half hate them with a passion.  I've been getting up to 22 mpg with my stock carb on my 20r, so that, and the fact that my goal is to spend as little as possible on the truck rule out the weber for me.  If I got a free one I would probably try it...  I got my entire truck for $250 so it's a little hard for me to spend more than that on just a carb.


Good luck...

 
got my truck for $250 too. yours probably didnt sit for a few years though. lol. im just discouraged cause i got my stock carb rebuilt already and i ended up wasting $135 on it.