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RE: Carb dashpots

To: "'triumphs'" <triumphs@triumph.cs.utah.edu>
Subject: RE: Carb dashpots
From: Tom Gentry <TGENTR@wgc.woodward.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 95 16:02:00 PST
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Allan McClure writes:
<<But I was told or
<<shown long ago to fill it so that when you insert the damper assembly, it
<<contacts the oil level (that is, you begin to feel resistance) when there 
is
<<about a 1/4" gap from the threads to the top of the carb piston housing.

That is the correct fill level as stated in my TR-6 Bentley, Autobook and 
Haynes shop manuals.  Perhaps in the manuals for early cars the wording was 
a bit ambiguous?

Tom (you can never have too many shop manuals) Gentry
72 TR-6 OD
Rockford, IL
TGENTR@WGC.WOODWARD.COM


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