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Re: Re: float bowls on HS6 carbs

To: "Dean Tetterton" <Richtr@erols.com>,
Subject: Re: Re: float bowls on HS6 carbs
From: <kaskas@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 17:28:01 -0400
Just abit on the carb bowl vibration.  On the engine dyno I coiuld not dampen 
the vibration of the float bowl at 5200 revs. So strong you cannotg believe it. 
 I put a can of water on the inlet manifold and it looked like white caps on 
the surface of the water.
> 


> From: "Dean Tetterton" <Richtr@erols.com>
> Date: 2005/05/04 Wed AM 07:48:21 EDT
> To: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>,  <fot@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: float bowls on HS6 carbs
> 
> Jack;
>             I have broken off two float bowls on the HS6. Both times it tore 
> out the side
> of the chamber. One on the front and one on the back. I was also having a 
> miss at 5600 to
> 5800 RPM. I determined that it was the harmonics at that RPM causing the 
> carbs to shake.
> The resulting froth in the gas caused the miss.
> 
>            I did two things to get rid of the problem. First I added a brace 
> from the front carb
> at the intake, down to two bolts on the oil pan. Then I installed weber soft 
> mounts under
> each HS6. This lets the carbs float on the intake. This was done two years 
> ago with no
> more broken bowls or miss.
> 
>       Worked for me;
> Dean Tetterton
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
> To: <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:01 PM
> Subject: float bowls on HS6 carbs
> 
> 
> > Sunday at the Mitty I came in from the race running on two cylinders. The 
> > cause was that the single bolt holding the float chamber to the body of 
> > one carb had fractured and the float chamber was hanging by the hoses.
> >
> > I've seen this happen on two other cars and both resulted in underhood 
> > fires. Thank goodness I didn't have that, but I could have. I thought 
> > those two incidents were too isolated to worry about. Wrongo.
> >
> > Has anybody else had this problem? If so, does anybody have a way to 
> > prevent this, other than replacing the 40-year-old bolt?
> >
> > uncle jack 

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