Denise...........
Send me the bodies and your new shafts. I'll ream them to fit for $15 the
pair, plus return postage.
Lawrie
British Sportscar Center
-----Original Message-----
From: xyzabcde@earthlink.net <xyzabcde@earthlink.net>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 12:26 PM
Subject: Carburettor dilemma
>Hi all,
>
>I'm having no luck finding a machine shop that will ream SU's for oversize
>throttle shafts. Some of them actually admit that they won't do it because
they
>don't make enough money off of it. Instead, they want me to pay them to
rebuild
>the carbs completely. Fat chance.
>
>I've found a tool store that will sell me the correct reamer (.323" or 'P'
>reamer) for $16.50 plus tax. This seems like a good thing to own when I
own
>eight sets of SU's. The problem is, the reamer has a smooth shank to fit
in a
>drill press or mill and I don't have either. I could probably rig up
something
>so that I could ream by hand, but I don't think I could do it acurately
enough.
>
>Here are the options as I see it. Drive a car getting 10mpg to San Diego
(200
>miles one way) to have my old machinist do it. Take reamer, carb bodies,
and
>throttle shafts on a tour of all of the local machine shops, bat my
eyelashes
>and hope someone takes pity on me. Mail the aforementioned bits to some
kind
>person on the list to be reamed and mailed back to me (hint, hint). Widen
my
>area of search and try to find a real machine shop.
>
>BTW, I'm in the Inland Empire, which is a euphemism for the hellhole east
of LA
>on the border of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. Truck pulls are
the
>height of culture around here. I'm near Pomona where I grew up and which
I've
>always referred to as the armpit of LA County. I'm now in the armpit of
San
>Bernardino County, birthplace of the Hell's Angels and John Birch Society.
If
>you see "Berdoo" on the back of a biker's jacket, he or she is from San
>Bernardino. Does anyone know of a good machine shop in this area?
>
>All suggestions, advice, offers gratefully accepted. Help!
>
>Denise Thorpe
>
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