Schebler DLX91 ID? any help?

[46EL]

Can anyone out there tell me what a Schebler DLX 91 fits? The website I use to ID Scheblers doesn't list one?? THANKS.

[T. Cotten]

46EL!

If it has a venturi that you can hardly get your finger through it is most likely for a commercial application such as stationary motors.

Another possibility is that it is an "export" model.

Literature for that era isn't readily available.

....Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

Harley Davidson 1921-25 74".

[46EL]

The Website I use has 21-25 74" as a HX-181???

[Chris Haynes]

Oops. I misread the chart.

[T. Cotten]

46EL!

Just conjuring, but my guess is that it is a die-cast potmetal 1" model, with a 5/8" venturi?

If it has the same choke mechanism as other motorcycle models, is the thumbtab on the right or left of the mouth of the carb? Does it have a shouldered bowl like the one in the attachment, or no squared off bulge at all?

....Cotten

[46EL]

Sorry but I can't download any photos. The Body is very similar to the DLX 108 and 110 Indian Style Bodies I have had over the years. Choke leverr is left side and Venturi looks like MAYBE One Inch. Bowl feels heave and probably Brass. THANKS

[Chris Haynes]

Ya gotta remember that Schebler made carburetors for every type of engine and wasn't limited to Harley or Indian motorcycles.

[T. Cotten]

46EL!

So it is a 1 1/4" model...

To the best of my findings, a potmetal body should have a potmetal bowl as well. Even the '40 "beanpot" bowls (bottom right) which resembled Linkerts are much heavier than aluminum.

We can only guess that it was produced between 1931 and 1933.
What other American marques of motorcycles were there at that time, and which ones would have used a large carb?

....Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

There have been over 300 different brands of motorcycles made in the USA prior to 1930. I am sure most of them used Schebler carburetors. Add to this the fact that Schebler made carburetors for industrial engines, autos and trucks you can only imagine how many different models they made.

[T. Cotten]

Chris!

A potmetal 1 1/4" Schebler narrows it down to about 1930 to 1940 at the absolute latest.
The 1930 H-D used the DLX 80, and by 1934 Schebler was already up to the DLX100 for the Chief.

This puts our mystery model somewhere immediately in between, and that's a pretty small window of '31-'32.
We need now to identify other possible productions in the motorcycle world. But we may never know if it was a commercial application, export, a replacement, or even a race model unless a rosetta stone for 1929-1939 motorcycle Scheblers surfaces.

An outboard motor Scheb went on epay for an astronomical price because it was stamped almost the same as a Hen.
Ignorance can be expensive.
It would be just as foolish to dismiss an oddball just because it is not in our current references.
Original paint conservations of potmetal Schebs outnumber all other carbs on my benches right now. And there are mystery numbers among the rest as well, such as the occasional bronze DLX58. All I can tell the owner is that it is a late "Roaring Twenties" carb,.... and then make it work for his Servi.

....Cotten

[flat-happy]

there is a small display of stationary single twin and four marine engines in bath maine and many had bronze schebler carbs

[T. Cotten]

Flat-Happy!

George Schebler essentially developed the internal combustion carburetor as we know it.

His first patent may have been in '02, but the name survives to this day, I believe as part of Tillotson, if they still exist I guess. A Schebler of some sort has been applied to nearly every land, water, and air vehicle imaginable, short of trains I 'spose.

....Cotten

[flat-happy]

that's a cool cover shot cotten---he was definitely a smart man. i wonder if there ever was a gasoline powered train???

[23JDCA 808]

. . .
George Schebler essentially developed the internal combustion carburetor as we know it.
His first patent may have been in '02, ....
....Cotten

http://www.google.com/patents/about?...AJ&dq=Schebler