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Re: [Mgs] Grose Jets

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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Grose Jets
From: Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:48:12 -0800
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I liked the braided hose. And had an inline filter.

In principle, I didn't like the idea of a valve that clogged so easily.

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 11/27/12 4:25 PM, Paul Osborne at paul@ece.rochester.edu wrote:

> Was just going to say that.
> On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Charley & Peggy Robinson wrote:
> 
>> Max,
>> 
>> You could have replaced the braided hoses with plain fuel hose, added an
>> in-line filter under the bonnet and been done with it. Easier than fiddling
>> with getting the float levels set right with the Grose jets and you'd have
>> stopped the flow of debris into your carbs too.  Might even have been a
>> cheaper fix.
>> 
>> CR
>> On 11/27/2012 11:47 AM, Max Heim wrote:
>>> I thought I just saw Grose-jets for HS4 MGB on the Moss USA website.
>>> 
>>> I have been running them for years. The needle valves kept getting clogged
>>> with debris, probably because the original braided fuel line was
>>> deteriorating from the inside.
>>> 
>>> The Grose-Jets don't have that problem, at least. They did have a problem
>>> with the original floats with the long brass hinges -- at a certain engine
>>> speed the bouncing balls set up a resonant vibration. This was fixed by
>>> substituting the all-plastic floats.
>>> 
>>> I know, replacing all the fuel lines would have been a more direct solution.
>>> But the threaded fitting on the feed pipe had been hacked off by a PO, and I
>>> was waiting to fix everything at once.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> Max Heim
>>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>>> If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
>>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>>> 
>>> 
>>> on 11/27/12 8:37 AM, Charley & Peggy Robinson at ccrobins@ktc.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Funny thing about those theing: Some people swear by them and some
>>>> people swear at them.  My experience with them puts me in the later
>>>> group. :-(
>>>> 
>>>> CR
>>>> On 11/26/2012 3:01 PM, Barrie Robinson wrote:
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have 4 Grose Jets SU301 for which I would like to find a nice home -
>>>>> Any offers?  I was unable to find a price for them - D & G Valve Inc
>>>>> do not have a web site - and Moss does not seem to have them ???
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Barrie Robinson
>>>>> barrie@look.ca
>>>>> 705-721-9060
>>>>> MGB GT V8  in great nick
>>>>> Aston Martin 1957 DB 2/4 MkII under restoration
>>>>> www.britishv8.org/MG/BarrieRobinson.htm
>>>>> www.britcot.com
>>>>> www.AMFClub.com
>>> _______________________________________________
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