I wonder if Weber mounts will work on SU carbs
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Gary & Gretchen
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:19 PM
To: Jack W. Drews; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: float bowls on HS6 carbs
Jack,
I've been amazed what fatigues and breaks off a 40 year old race car. A
couple years ago I had one of the float chamber bolts snap off at the tip
where it screws into the carb housing. Happily the chamber just dropped an
inch and killed two cylinders without gushing fuel all over and starting a
fire. It could have been a bit loose and the high vibration killed it - who
thinks to check the things, expecially since they're behind the choke
linkage and quite difficult to access. I found some soft rubber mounts in
place of the hard mounts and loctited the heck out of the replacement bolts.
But I have only a half dozen events since so no real history to report.
Gary Schneider
37 EP 62 TR4
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:01 PM
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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