A buddy of mine cut oversized holes in my bodies, and installed oil
impregnated, bronze bushings
( My shaft holes were BAD egg shaped, more than .020 . I used my original
shfts which were fine.
I don't know what he would charge for this prcedure, but I know that it
WILL NEVER be a problem for ME again !!
john.kahoon@juno.com
71 midget
On Sat, 23 May 1998 02:38:43 -0400 George Procyshyn
<geopro@cyberdrive.net> writes:
>At the Sprite rush Peter Samaroo kindly helped get my Bugeye running
>better.
>He pointed out that the throttle shafts on my 1" + 1/8" S.U. 's are
>worn and
>wobbly.
>
>I buy a pair of oversize shafts from Moss (part # 376-015) and a
>reamer to
>install them.
>Moss says the reamer will allow installation of throttle shafts
>twenty
>thousands larger than
>the normal 5/16th's shafts. So far so good.
>
>Now the reamer is actually a beautiful piece of steel rod that has
>cutting
>threads in the center,
>the whole thing is slightly tapered and the aft end is squared to put
>a
>wrench on it to turn it
>thru the carb body. The fore end mic's to .3120 (just a tad under
>5/16
>which is .3125) fine. the aft end is up to .3230 Now, first
>question,
>isn't that difference just TEN thousand's and
>not TWENTY thousand's?
>
>The throtle shafts them selfs which ARE marked as oversize aren't even
>5/16th's. They measure .2590 a bit over 1/4" (.250) actually just
>under
>33/128th's .... now this is almost 1/16" SMALLER than the hole that
>the
>reamer would put in the carbs. This makes me think maybe there are
>bushing
>involved here. A look at the Moss catalog sure as hell shows part #
>330-490 throttle shaft bushings. . .. but nothing about "oversize"
>bushings.
>
>Seems like if I ream out anything, the shafts will just slop around.
>So guys, what's the procedure here? There's gotta be some information
>I'm
>missing !? Uninformed minds need to know with DETAIL .... help/please.
>GP
>
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