Dear Ed and Lee,
Thanks for your relpies. I do haunt swap meets here in Northern California with regularity. I see several publications both new and used on Holley, Edelebrock etc. but never anything specific to 4100s or Ford carbs in general. My 1967 Motors Manual and my 65 Mustang, Falcon Comet Shop manual both have detailed instructions for disassembly and settings but I neither list,in detail, specifics as to correct Boosters and venturii asemblies for any given carb. Maybe what I am looking for doesn't exist but as I said a lot of guys who post regularly seem to know the correct numbers of those assemblies mentioned above and I wondered where they obtain their information.
As always, I do appreciate your site and the great opportunity you provide to have questions such as this answered by a wide variety of people!
Kind regards, Tom

do have the info you seek, in chapter 10, specification section, at the end of the chapter. I think I have the same book you do, Falcon, Comet, Fairlane, Mustang, orange cover.

Your right about the Shop Manual. Orange cover; Comet Falcon Mustang. I just saw on e-bay a Ford issued Shop suppement for all Ford carbs up to and including 1959. This seems to be a tune-up specific addition for dealer shops. I guess I wondered if a similar addition had been issued for later years.
Thanks Again for your interest and help!!
Kind Regards Tom S.

I think you are refering to my when you say "those guys with their books".
First of all there is really no one specific book for 4100's EXCEPT for TWO and I will get to those in a second.

I have been working on carbs and fords since I was a teenager about 30 years ago, and I have also been a Ford mechanic at a dealership. I started slowly but about 20 years ago, I completed a collection of all shop manuals for fords and mercury's and from 1954 thru 1979 conclusive (nothing missing) I probably have manuals dating back thru the early 50's thru 1990's and now have most truck manuals as well.
Those old shop manuals are golden, they were written in a time when people actually worked on their own cars and COULD work on their own cars All of them have carburetor section, the older they are it seems the better the information, some even have part numbers and most ALL HAVE SPECIFICATIONS.
Today this collection if one were to amass it would cost a small fortune but it is easier today than when I did it, E-bay has these all for sale you just need to decide to pony up. You can even get brand new re-pops in most of them and then they wont look as used as mine.

Next, when I started working for the dealership I started using specification guided for easier reference. Dealership mechanics work on flat rate (those were the days) so they don't have time looking up shop manuals, not sure about other dealerships but ford printed out specification manuals that were tiny books about 3X6 that could fit in your rollaway that only had the specification in them, (no pictures or instructions like the shop manuals), not only that but they had part numbers and more information included beside the shop manual specifications, PLUS they had corrections to the shop manuals. These were only for dealership mechanics but these also can be found (but not as easily) on E-bay, I have a collection of these from 1956 thru 1972

Next Because I work at the dealership on carburetor I also got all of the factory information via tip sheets based on troubleshooting form other problems that dealer had, I don;t have much in the way of 60's stuff but LOTS of this from the 70's and 80's when carb problems on those lean fuel carb and smog engines were everyday problems.

Finally since I personally have been doing autolites for over 30 years, I have an acquired knowledge but about 20 years ago I realized that I was forgetting more then I was remembering so I started to write down information about every carb I rebuilt and what was wrong (if anything) and what I did to it. I actually wish I had kept even better records then like I do today but this has formed my personal autolite book/pages. I wish it was more organized sometimes but this is really invaluable to me. It takes me awhile sometimes to find information but I do find it and most often use this to answer all those hard questions here on this forum. Someday I keep threatening to organize this and make it worth its weight in gold :o) Maybe if I can get my secretary/wife.......... right......

About 8 years ago I ran across another mechanic who has done the same thing and who is considered an autolite expert by many, the only difference is HIS book is for sale and has sold quite a few of them. The first ones were filed of his opinions and had errors but the last couple are pretty good. How good???? I own one of the last three versions. and that is the book that Jon of Pony's puts out, for I think 15.00 bucks it is money well spent. I use this book today for looking up many quick reference items.


Does that help???

Oh yea, my personal book/pages, I have toyed with the idea of printing out mine and maybe someday that will happen.

Bill White
White Automotive