- 1. Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "William T Snyder, II" <wtsnyder@juno.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:20:59 -0400
- Hello list. I have a '66B with an earlier 3-main engine fitted with original SU carbs. I recently tried fiddling with the rich/lean adjustment using an SU synchronizer tool. I now have the car runnin
- /html/mgs/2001-07/msg00035.html (7,222 bytes)
- 2. Re: Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 21:44:16 -0600
- I think your jets are too low and you are running rich (as if the choke was on). And now for a possibly related story of my personal experience. The first time I rebuilt a set of SU carbs was in coll
- /html/mgs/2001-07/msg00037.html (9,025 bytes)
- 3. Re: Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Janacek" <mjanacek@snet.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 06:27:30 -0400
- Maybe I'm reading your post wrong but it sounds like your trying to adjust mixture to get the carbs synced. Loosen the throttle linkage clamp bolt to one carb and turn the idle screw on one or the ot
- /html/mgs/2001-07/msg00042.html (8,692 bytes)
- 4. Re: Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 18:48:28 -0600
- I'll send this reply to the list too since it might prove helpful. I have a fair working knowledge of SU carbs although miniscule compared to some on the list. There are several things that could ca
- /html/mgs/2001-07/msg00140.html (8,381 bytes)
- 5. Re: Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:53:34 -0400
- It's my impression that the 'twelve flats' is counted from the setting at which the jet is flush with the bridge, rather than with the adjusting nut all the way up. Bud Krueger /// /// mgs@autox.tea
- /html/mgs/2001-07/msg00144.html (8,206 bytes)
- 6. Re: Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:40:07 -0600
- Bud, I was sure that it was the nut all the way up for the starting position, and that is how I have been doing it for the past 25 years. Although when I did my last carb rebuild on a set of HS6s for
- /html/mgs/2001-07/msg00148.html (7,995 bytes)
- 7. Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 11:21:25 EDT
- <<Maybe there is a mindset with those that install Webers but all of those so fitted drove like... a truck. None of the SU fitted cars reacted that way but they felt like they had a tad less 'grunt'
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00081.html (10,099 bytes)
- 8. Re: Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: H4aardvrk@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 01:41:18 EDT
- << ust my experience with this stuff. But then I'm clearly a maniac - I once built a TR engine with 4 H4 SUs instead of Webers, just to see what would happen. Also had one running with SU DU6s, a dou
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00139.html (7,097 bytes)
- 9. Re: Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 02:18:50 EDT
- << I would trade a dgv for a tunable z-s.yes sir! For the street, the SUs are just as good as the Strombergs. << yours, H4(Howard)....and we need to see apict of that su-du6!..I bet it makes great po
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00144.html (6,746 bytes)
- 10. Re: CARBS (score: 1)
- Author: "wizardz" <wizardz@amdyne.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:35:58 -0400
- Thanks Willy, I knew I wasn't crazy, insane yes, crazy no. I couldn't imagine the PO would have placed older units on this B, he was too meticulous not to have stayed with the original equipment. App
- /html/mgs/1998-08/msg00302.html (7,262 bytes)
- 11. Carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Razor" <mrazor@kih.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:53:57 -0400
- Webers or not for my MGA with an early three main bearing? And where is a good place to buy a Weber Carb? THANKS! MIKE R 52 MGTD 59 MGA -- MZ
- /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01442.html (6,062 bytes)
- 12. carbs (score: 1)
- Author: pharris@eos.vf.mmc.com
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 96 09:38:28 EDT
- Hi all. Its ben a while since I've posted... I've got the head back on the Midget. Of course, right before I pulled the head off last week, the starter died. Had to push the Midget with a chevette to
- /html/mgs/1996-08/msg00195.html (7,335 bytes)
- 13. Re: carbs (score: 1)
- Author: Norman Fair <NormFair@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 02:04:51 +0000
- Good News: The vent at the top of the rocker cover goes to the middle connector of the canister. Bad News: You should have a zenith-stromberg (ick) carb on that car, not any type of SU.
- /html/mgs/1996-08/msg00299.html (6,388 bytes)
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