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Re: Replacing S.U. Throttle Shafts

To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net, geopro@cyberdrive.net
Subject: Re: Replacing S.U. Throttle Shafts
From: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 04:50:39 PDT
Reply-to: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Hello George,
             Will check the dimensions on the reamer I used and the 
diameter of the shafts. worked fine on mine maybe Moss messed up on the 
shafts and sent you standard, or the reamer is the wrong size. Will let 
you know later today.
Peter.

>Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 02:38:43 -0400
>To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>From: George Procyshyn <geopro@cyberdrive.net>
>Subject: Replacing S.U. Throttle Shafts
>Reply-To: George Procyshyn <geopro@cyberdrive.net>
>
>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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