I was once told that it was a summer and a winter position.
Huib
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Van: Bud Rolofson <Bud_Rolofson@nps.gov>
Aan: Tim Gaines <mtgaines@cs1.presby.edu>; TRIUMPHS@autox.team.net
<TRIUMPHS@autox.team.net>
Datum: dinsdag 2 maart 1999 23:44
Onderwerp: Was TR6 Stromberg carb question Now another?
>
>Tim,
>
>If you have a local LBC parts place you might go down there and ask if they
have
>a box of carb gasket spares they might have saved. Jim from Kats British
Car
>Service(303-730-0877) here in Denver saves all the spares and he was kind
enough
>to let me go through them to find the right by-pass valve gaskets for my
carbs
>(the ones that came with the kit leaked like crazy). He might even find
you one
>for the starter box cover if he's not too busy and you fax him a picture of
it.
>
>Question for the list:
>
>Speaking of the starter box/choke. I was wondering what the "stop" is for
on
>the starter box cover/choke. It's hard to describe but it's a spring
loaded
>(brass looking) pin with a knurled knob on one end and a slot for a
screwdriver
>on the end of that knob. The pin goes through a hole in the starter box
cover
>and sticks out. Where it sticks out there is a hole in the pin with a tiny
split
>pin that fits into the hole and extends out each side of the pin. This
split
>pin has two positions it sits in when the brass pin is pushed in on it's
spring
>and rotated 90 degrees. The end of the brass pin acts as a "stop" for the
choke
>cam lever and it can be set in two positions. The two positions function
to
>"stop" the choke cam lever (in either a more choke or less choke mode) when
the
>choke is pulled out to it's full-choke position. The difference in the two
>positions being only about 3/8 inch.
>
>I've seen pictures of them in the manuals, ZS (the cover), Haynes (p.65),
but
>nobody ever puts a name to the pins. Bentley had one picture (p. 24 Figure
63)
>with the pin numbered (5) and an arrow pointing to it, but then never
refers to
>the number in the text.
>
>Now if you can figure out what I'm talking about from that....can you tell
me
>why there are two different stop positions for the choke when it's in the
>full-choke position? In other words....why is the choke stop adjustable?
It
>also appears that only the back carbs have this adjustable choke stop while
the
>front carbs have a non-adjustable choke stop.
>
>Thanks
>Bud
>71TR6 CC57365
>71TR6 CC65446
>
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>Subject: TR6 Stromberg carb question
>Author: Tim Gaines <mtgaines@cs1.presby.edu>
>Date: 02/28/1999 5:41 PM
>
>
>I just finished dismantling and cleaning the two Strombergs on my 1974
>TR6 purchased in October. The PO gave me one carb kit (in a plastic
>bag) and I bought another, but the PO's kit did not have a gasket for
>the starter box/choke assembly which the other kit had. Neither carb
>had the gasket when I took them apart. One of my catalogs shows the
>gasket but does not have a part number for it, and another one doesn't show
>it at all. I decided to leave them off. I cranked up the engine for the
>first time a couple of hours ago, and it caught right up and sounded
>pretty smooth with no adjustments yet, but the forward carb is leaking
>gas and it appears to be from the starter box. So it seems that the
>gasket might really be necessary even though it wasn't there before
>and there was no leaking before. Do any of you out there remember
>whether your manual choke Strombergs have the gasket? And is there a
>way to buy another one without getting the whole rebuild kit?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Tim Gaines
>1974 TR6
>1980 Spitfire
>
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