I sold my F1 to my brother last year, and now he is having a little trouble with the holly 1904. It was rebuilt by me along with the truck about 4 years ago, and he has since taken it apart and cleaned it. He still thinks the carb is the reason the truck will not run right, and would like to buy a new,or "rebuilt" carb to replace it. Can anybody steer me to where to buy a 1904 or what other carbs would be interchangeable with a 1904? I know the 1904 was used on a few different applications and some have different jets or setup differently. Thanks in advance.

 

My 53 F250 has the 215 ci 6 cylinder as well. I bought a "rebuilt carb" from Carburetor Exchange 951-689-5963 in California last fall. It was a perfect fit and I installed it within 15 minutes. The engine is running beautifully. The cost was $250 plus a $100 returnable core charge.
Good luck!

 

You can adapt the 2-barrel Holley 94 from a V8 to it with a cheap adapter. May be trading one problem for others tho. Various other makes used the 1904 variants; IH used it on 4-cyl and 6-cyl engines up into the '60's.

 

So is there a certain jet size, or cfm specification, I need to be looking for when shopping around?

 

I'd check with "Henry1952" on here, he's a very good carb guy. I asked a while back if any of the newer (late '50's - early '60's) 1904 look-alikes have bigger venturis or anything, didn't get much response. The 94's are only rated about 225 cfm as I recall, Y-block 2110's (later model 94) are 350 or so. If you are looking for power a different manifold is definitely the way to go, a 2x1 setup like 51Panelman tried. I'd look for compatible linkage or direct replacement otherwise.

 

I'll ditto Ross's comment. Owen (1952henry) is really skilled with carbs. He's redone a couple of mine. Stu