What has anyone paid recently for a rebuilt NH straight through ? If no one has bought one lately, what are they worth??
Thanks TOM
250.00 is going price if rebuilt right, Bob
I would think 45 bucks for a non rebuilt fairly complete one.
it all depends on who you buy from, some people want alot some people dont.
i recently "found" a simmons high power in a pile of parts, asked if i could have it, and the guy gave it to me. of course it needs a full rebuild but still.
There is a reason that carb was changed. The smaller hole improves acceleration and low end torque. I took mine off for that reason.
Russ Potter gets $350 for a rebuilt NH Straight thru with no core.
Anybody got cores for $45 I will take 5 of them right now.
Macs charge for a sway back nh is $300 without a core. making the core worth $100.
have you ever paid $100 for an NH core? cuz i wouldnt pay more than $10 MAYBE $20 for a rusty one.
what im saying is value is often highly inflated among rebuilders. you will save alot if you seek a core and do the work yourself.
In my experience, one core in ten at least will be unusable. Maybe one core in two. That makes the value of the useable core higher. If you are rebuilding one a core is not big deal. If you are rebuilding a dozen the cores become significant. I would take ten straight through cores for fifty apiece or a dozen late NH cores with no missing parts, no dented bowls, no frozen in main jets, etc. for $25.
Same with OF's. If you buy one off ebay and rebuild it yourself you don't have to have it perfect or close to it. If you rebuild them and sell them nobody will tolerate a dent in the bowl, a less than perfect throttle arm, a throttle shaft that is "a little loose but should work," etc. There is a different standard of rebuild when you are doing them for somebody else.
There is a lot of the work which goes into locating rebuildable cores. In order to provide a rebuilt carb you have to have one to rebuild. If everyone had a good rebuildable core and turned it in that would be one thing. A large number of people don't have a core, or their core has been sitting in the weeds for the past 60 years and is pitted, frozen solid and worthless. That means the rebuilder has to go hunt down cores, which takes time and time is money. The core charge is higher than the purchase price to encourage people to turn in their cores. If you look at Lang's catalog, the core price for an NH is $75. If you want to sell one, they will buy it for $25. As Stan stated, it's one thing to pick up one to rebuild for yourself. It's a whole different thing to have to keep finding 20 or so every month which have to be perfect.
Combine the carburetors with generators, starters, ball caps, mag coils, connecting rods and all of the other rebuilt parts and the effort to locate all these cores becomes significant. Not to mention the cost to ship them back and forth to the rebuilder.
Dave S.
I heard straight throughs were a wonderful carburetor, so I put one on. I didn't notice any real change in performance, but my mileage sure went down! I put a regular swayback on, and now things are just fine.
I have seen on ebay that people see what core charges are and think that's what their carb etc are worth. If they read a little more then the "we will buy it for $X" will be shown. If the asking price is $75 for a core, why would I pay someone that price plus postage, so I could pay postage again to send it in? duh!