We live on a small inland lake in south Michigan and our ski boat needed a carb rebuild. Although we asked them several times to verify that they would be shipping us an identical Holley carb model to the one we have, instead they ground off the stamped Holley numbers and placed their own branded sticker over the top of it with a false model number. No wonder the carb would not work with our Ford 351. Not only that, it is easy to modify a non-marine carb to "look" like a marine carb yet isn't vented like one (dangerous!). We could never get ahold of anybody and once we did, they said to send it back for a full refund. Once we sent it back, after about 7 wasted weeks due to their delay upfront, they refused to refund the entire amount. When asked if they always grind off the Holley carb model number off the units before shipping them out, they said "yes that is our standard practice". I got a local guy to rebuild our gummed up Holley carb and it works fine, which we should have done in the first place. Caution, you will likely not get the model carb you are paying for! Hassles, hassles, hassles!
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