Weber 50's

[harris horse power]

I am after buying a pair of weber 50's. But ive heard that the new ones made by the spanish company are crap and that the only ones to go for are the old italian ones. Does anyone no if this is true or not?

[DEP]

Hi Simon,

I know Jo had a few problems with her 48 s to start with, i think colin had a real mision trying to get them to run right, they were the spanish ones

[Fiesta Steve]

I am after buying a pair of weber 50's. But ive heard that the new ones made by the spanish company are crap and that the only ones to go for are the old italian ones. Does anyone no if this is true or not?

 

They are super expensive if you can find some. I watched some manky old italian 48's that sold for £650 on ebay recently !!

[morcheen]

what are a pair of italian 50's worth to you ? might see if my brother will sell his will look for a pic of them.

[harris horse power]

what are a pair of italian 50's worth to you ? might see if my brother will sell his will look for a pic of them.

 

 

you have a pm.

[harris horse power]

Picked my italian 50s up today

[fezza]

Have we worked out how you tell the difference yet i bought a set of 48's the other day but i dont have a clue how to tell if there the italian or spanish ones ?

[w p e]

it says made in spain or italy on the top

[fezza]

it says made in spain or italy on the top

 

Really i didnt think it would be that simple

 

Mine say made in Italy

[Fiesta Steve]

..and they talk with a different accent

[fezza]

Past your bedtime Steve,lol

[morcheen]

it's the ones that say 'made in taiwan' you have to really worry about

[Vista]

..and they talk with a different accent

 

But both will insist on taking a Siesta in the middle of the day just when you need the lazy B'stards to work or at least answer the phone!

[escort21]

I bought a set of spanish 45s and they were full of swarf on the inside, castings are a pile of poo, Italian all the way

[w p e]

the spanish ones work just aswell after a couple of hours cleaning out the internals but the rough cast is very cheap and poor looking but hopefully as weber are now back in italy we might get a desent carb again

[banarama]

i sold kev a set of webber 50.s proper ones,back in the summer months last year.has he put them to good use

[morcheen]

i must have a look inside my new spanish 48's and 45's to see what they left in there no problem with the new 40 on my brothers motor though,bolted it on straight out of the box could be a friday carb esc21

[escort21]

Yeay possibly, they had sharp edges on them too, not good engineering practice

[w p e]

i sold kev a set of webber 50.s proper ones,back in the summer months last year.has he put them to good use

yep in the box's on the shelf collecting dust

[Col-ashtonmobile]

yeah if i remember the carbs mk2jo bought were the first batch of spanish ones after weber went back after the strike and then closing down for a 2 weeks holiday i had a major problem with the floats being all being wrong and not sort of fitting/working properly , it seemed like the whole carbs had just been thrown together, the couple of sets i,ve bought in the last few months have been ok and they seem to have smoothed out the rough casting , the only thing i dont like is the poxy locking wire holding the choke securing bolts in i seem to stab myself everytime on it as its as sharp as a fooking needle