Super A carburetor

[Alex Hart]

Hi, quick question involving a carb on my super A. It is a Carter, the bottom half has Carter UT stamped on it, with 0-652, and the top half has 0-653. is that how it is supposed to be or has someone jury rigged it? Thanks.

[Jim Becker]

There were Carter UT carburetors used on the Super A. The numbers you found are probably part numbers and could be the original configuration. Don't know details on that carb.

[AL Farmall Boy]

Hi, quick question involving a carb on my super A. It is a Carter, the bottom half has Carter UT stamped on it, with 0-652, and the top half has 0-653. is that how it is supposed to be or has someone jury rigged it? Thanks.

Personally, I prefer a Zenith carburetor (more common on the Super A). While they both were originally offered, the Zenith is a better carburetor and parts are easily found. Not too sure about the Carters as it has been a while since I've fooled with one. If you got several Super A parts tractors recently, I would recommend having one of the Zenith carburetors on those rebuilt and use that one.......assuming they all 3 don't have Carters!

[Super A]

If the top half of your Carter carb is made out of cast iron, parts are readily available. If both halves are pot metal, some parts are non-existent.

The Carter carbs, in my limited experience, seem to be more common on the early 50s tractors. I have 3 1950 models in various states of disrepair and they all have Carters on them I don't have data to prove it, but they seem to start a little easier cold than my tractor with a Zenith.

Al

[AL Farmall Boy]

yeah, I think the issue with the Carters is more or less the availability of quality replacement parts.

[BullDAWG]

I have a carter ut carb on my 1950 SA. those #'s your looking at are part #'s. Not 2 different types af carter carbs. I used to have tons of info on them but my laptop w? all the pdf files on them isn't working so I can't look it up at the moment, but like Super A (Al) said the cast iron tops are easy to get almost all the parts for. I had to get new floats and got a rebuild kit that came with the jet, needle n seat, idel jet, main jet, throttle shaft and many other parts from Stiener tractor but others also carry parts for those UT carter carbs. I like mine mainly because of the valve on bottom of bowl so when I want to store the tractor for weeks to months it easy to drain the carb. Other than that they seem simmilar to the Zenith on my cubs.

[Super A]

I like mine mainly because of the valve on bottom of bowl so when I want to store the tractor for weeks to months it easy to drain the carb. Other than that they seem simmilar to the Zenith on my cubs.

Zeniths and Marvel-Schreblers had a drain like that too. They were for the distillate/kerosene tractors.

Al