Properly adjusted and centered SU's make a wonderful "ting" as they shut.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: <N197TR4@cs.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: High Idle in TR3A - SUs
>
> After fighting high idle for a very long time, I finally took everything
> apart and inspected it.
>
> The cause was a lack of the butterfly seating (not centralised). I backed
off
> the little brass screws...finding a very tight fit on the butterfly,
likely
> what led me down this path, I fiddled with it until it was correct. Nice
> metallic sound when butterfly hits correctly.
>
> I had done all kinds of things to bring idle down and only masked it.
Ended
> up with car that did not perform as it should and it affected my gas
mileage.
> My lack of patience has done little for my self esteem.
>
> Subsequent restart of the engine and setting the idle....it was absolutely
> wonderful.
>
> Joe Alexander
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