Apology accepted ;-)....LOL
Michael Salter
100 (1953)
AHX12 (1953)
Bugeye (1961)
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/
Len -
Oh yes you are right, I forgot about the lever couplings. Yes they can come
loose, but I've never seen that happen, they clamp pretty tight with only a
little bit of force. The older type shaft couplings used on earlier healeys
come loose much more often - likely because you have to loosen them to tun
the carbs on earlier cars wheras on the HD8 carb you usually don't have to
loosen these couplings to fine tune the carb.
Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces+msalter=precisionsportscar.com@autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+msalter=precisionsportscar.com@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Leonard Hartnett
Sent: May 11, 2008 10:29 PM
To: Healey Mail List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Strange Problem
Alan: If you will look in your Moss catalog for HD8 carbs, you will see
part number 80. This "Shaft Assembly, carb, coupling" is connected to each
carb's shaft by parts 73 and 74. It is, in fact, possible to have one
butterfly opening while the other is not, or at least not in sync, if one or
both of the couplings becomes loose. Somewhere in the carb adjusting
instructions, I recall that you loosen these, tune each carb independently,
then tighten them up when everything is in balance.
(The Other) Len
Vacaville, California, USA
1967 3000 MKIII, HBJ8L39031
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Salter" <msalter@precisionsportscar.com>
Cc: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Strange Problem
> Nick -
>
> Michael is pretty much a guru here, but his point 1. is off because the
> HD8
> carbs on your BJ8 are fixed together with a fixed attachment so you can't
> have one carb valve opening and the other stays closed with a Mk III -
> they
> will both open and close at the same time, always. Only earlier Healeys
> had
> this problem.
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