How about SU HIF's?
Charly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'Jack W. Drews'" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: RE: float bowls on HS6 carbs
> Webers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of Jack W. Drews
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:01 PM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: float bowls on HS6 carbs
>
> Sunday at the Mitty I came in from the race running on two cylinders. The
> cause was that the single bolt holding the float chamber to the body of
one
> carb had fractured and the float chamber was hanging by the hoses.
>
> I've seen this happen on two other cars and both resulted in underhood
> fires. Thank goodness I didn't have that, but I could have. I thought
those
> two incidents were too isolated to worry about. Wrongo.
>
> Has anybody else had this problem? If so, does anybody have a way to
prevent
> this, other than replacing the 40-year-old bolt?
>
> uncle jack
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