Makes you wonder if Zenith stuck these things on there to meet the spirit of
the laws in place at the time. For the life of me, I can't see this little
piece of junk doing any precise varying of the mixture. Probably seemed
like a good idea at the time...
Mark Anderton
72 TR6
Virginia Beach
http://members.cox.net/andertonm/car_stuff.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Fluke" <res0s0t7@verizon.net>
To: "TR6 list" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 3:06 AM
Subject: Temp. compensators
> Listers,
>
> I received my new carb air temperature compensators and have followed the
> calibration instructions kindly posted at the Buckeye Triumph site.
Recently,
> one of our fellow listers commented that he gave up on the compensators
> because the valves would stick and/or not close all the way. One of mine
> sticks and neither of them closes all the way. I sprayed them with a
teflon
> bearing lubricant and probably wasted a perfectly good prayer before
putting
> the covers back on.
>
> I wonder if others have found their valves to have the same problems. For
> what its worth, the bags they came in say "Zenith" on them. I'm going to
> install the little $53/ea wonders while I'm at this job, but I feel more
like
> I'm playing witch doctor than mechanic.
>
>
> Gary
> '73
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