Hello- I have searched high and low but cannot pinpoint exactly what I need. I am looking for a reliable new carb for my 1974 F250 360 . Current carb is 2 Barrel Motorcraft D3TF GC.

I am looking for a basic no frills reliable affordable carb. I dont need high performance anything. Just need to get to home depot and back. If anyone has a link or intel , I would be very appreciative.

 

Have you rebuilt your current one? That would be your cheapest option... otherwise google Motorcraft 2100 carb, or check your local favorite parts supplier, be prepared for sticker shock...

Rebuilding is a fairly simple process, get the rebuild kit, some cans of carb cleaner, disassemble, clean, re-assemble in reverse order

 

I have not rebuilt. Have done so with other carbs and always ends up running in circles ( maybe becuase I dont know exactly what I am doing ). In googling 2100 carb, dozens upon dozens pop up, ranging from $100 to $800. Looking for someone who has bought a reasonably priced one and ran it with success.

 

The 2100 is probably one of the easiest to do, don't cut yourself short... I've done a few, and I still put a white towel on my workbench, as I take it apart I lay it out, once all apart, I clean, then reverse the process...
I literally just did one off a 66 F250/352 a week or so ago, and I got interrupted in the process which usually screws me up. Had to look at the parts blowup just to confirm I was right.
Try getting a rebuild kit, lay out a white towel, do it all in one setting without interruptions and I'll bet you'll get it right! On the idle mixture screws, when I take them out and jot down how many turns, once clean and putting back together, I seat them and back out 1 and 1/2 turns as a base setting and that is usually very close to when you tune with a vac gauge.

Then, if, IF that doesn't work, you know you tried, and you can order a new/rebuilt one..

 

Alright alright, you have kicked me in the rear and motivated me !

 

 

If you just want to buy one and not mess with it I would recommend one of these:

More Information for AUTOLINE C895 (rockauto.com)

More Information for AUTOLINE C895A (rockauto.com)

both are OEM remans from a solid canadian company. Not cheap but to pay someone to rebuild a carburetor isn't much cheaper. New carbs are like $400+ nowadays at the low end so $266 ain't bad

 

Last year I went through a horrible process with getting a rebuilt 2100 from O'Reilly's. We ended up having the existing one rebuilt and so I'd only recommend a rebuild or one of the big names: don't buy one from Amazon or one of the auto parts stores. I ended up ordering 10 carbs and none of them worked. In fact, I only installed one of them as it was clear the others were missing parts.

When talking to the person that rebuilt the carb for us, he pointed out that the parts compatibility checkers indicate that a part will "fit" but that doesn't mean it will work. So you need to validate jets, etc.

Let me know if you have troubles with the rebuild and end up wanting to send it to someone. I went to a guy local to Seattle area. We got it back, hooked it all up, and the truck started right up (once we got some fuel in the bowl and such). Same as you, 360 with a 2100 carb.

 

Go to your local auto parts store, buy a Walker pn 15369D carb kit (made in USA!) and a gallon can of Berryman's Chem-Tool with the dip basket, and rebuild your current carb. I've gone the route of trying to make a rebuilt carburetor work. There are a lot of variations in 2100D carburetors. They are NOT all the same! Getting the right carb when you order a rebuild is a crap shoot. I had to replace the carb that came with my truck because it was physically damaged by a previous owner and as a result it had a vacuum leak, and I could not save it. The rebuilt unit that I got was definitely not the right carb for my truck, even though the supplier said it was. As @seacam noted, just because it fits doesn't mean it will work. I don't know what year it was or what model of Ford it came from because that information had been ground off the casting! It definitely had the wrong jets installed for my application (which is a '73 360). It had the wrong type choke mechanism installed. And, by the way, I bought it from a well-known national auto parts supplier, and it came from that well-known Canadian rebuild company that @beardedcap mentioned above. I messed with it for days, and no matter what I did to it, I could not get it to run right. I finally gave up on it. I then located and bought an original, unmolested carb, rebuilt it myself, and it runs perfectly. The only thing I had to do to it, other than the rebuild, was to convert it from manual to automatic transmission using parts from my old damaged carb. Never again will I buy a rebuilt carb! And I would not even consider buying one of the Chinese re-pop carbs. I don't even want to think about the problems that would come with it!

 

I wouldn’t buy the Chinese stuff either, but rebuilding your own can lead to problems as well. Yeah, it’s relatively easy, but unless you have the proper tools and machining equipment to deal with possible issues that might arise like throttle shaft bore wear you can end up chasing your tail and get very frustrated. If that shaft bore is not machined for a new resized bushing it will leak and you’ll never be able to tune around it, and that’s if you can even manage to figure out that it’s sucking unmetered air. Quality American rebuilds or new units won’t have that kind of problem. IMHO, go with new or something rebuilt in North America like the ones linked above. The time you might save from the potential hassle is worth the extra cost.

Of course, if it was my truck it would be getting a brand new Holley 4 barrel and aluminum intake manifold, but that’s a whole other discussion.