[Fot] SU Rebuilder

[davehogye]

Joe Curto did my carbs and missed a couple things. I had meticulously cleaned 3 disassembled carbs and sent them to Joe to build a set with the best parts between them. 
While tuning I found that the dampers didn't match, one had a long shaft and one short. I also found that one of the pistons was machined to a larger diameter where the damper fits and one of the carbs, after about 300 miles of use, started to leak fuel from the main jet seal. 
The problem might be that Joe doesn't actually do the work, but I'm not sure about that. In any event, details were missed. Oh, Joe did send a nice SU coffee mug with the carbs, but unfortunately it was poorly packaged and the handle was broken off during shipping. 


I had communicated with Paltech before I send mine to Curto. They sure seemed to be on their game and detail oriented. Their polishing is unique. Their price is, if I remember correctly, less than Curto, but not by much. Both are very reasonably priced and about half to 1/3rd the cost of a new set of SUs, depending on HS6s or H6s. The difference in price was probably about the cost of a coffee mug. 


I checked Ray Marty's website and I think it's a fair bet that Ray will actually be doing the work and to a quality level. One photo on his website shows him milling the carb to manifold gasket surface... Really? The photos remind me of a very detail oriented, shall I say completely annal retentive machinist friend of mine. 


Dave H. 







----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Redmond" <alfetta95 at optonline.net> 
To: "FOT at autox.team.net FOT at autox.team.net" <FOT at autox.team.net> 
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:46:07 PM 
Subject: [Fot] SU Rebuilder 

FoT, 


Just finished my first tractor engine build. I'll post a pic on the FoT 
Facebook page. 


Looking for someone to rebuild the SU's. B Who is B recommended? B British 
Classic Motors are away until end of February. B I could wait until then. 
B Was just checking on others. 



Thanks 


Todd Redmond 
TS #29341 
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