Steven - when I took the dashpot covers off my SUs I was surprized to see
how much carbon built up on the outer sealing rim (and friction was indicated
- causing sticking) but its easily brushed off. The Strombergs used a big
rubber diaphram in its place so there is no close metal-to-metal clearance to
maintain - just new rubbers to replace every 5 years..
Sometime you might want to pop the 3 screws on each dashpot and clean up the
air piston 'rims'.. the risk for falling into a ground-up restoration is
greatly and safely reduced on projects under1/2 hour! ;-) (fingers crossed
behind back)
Carl '63 TR4
>>The big problem was likely the
sticking front carb piston, carb cleaner freed it up, and I resisted the urge
to
rebuilt the carbs anyway -- as Carl pointed out, at that point I might as well
do a ground-up. <g> <<
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