I have found that high vacuum grease works pretty well if you don't want to
replace the shafts right away. Use it on intake gaskets so you can get the
carbs on and off without ripping. Dow Corning makes it.
J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Laird" <jlaird237@cox.net>
To: "spridgets net" <spridgets@autox.team.net>; "David Ramsey"
<dwramsey@worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: More carb questions
> I will try the heavy grease trick tomorrow to see if that helps, if so it
> will confirm the problem.
>
> Thanks David, good idea.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Ramsey" <dwramsey@worldnet.att.net>
> To: "'Jack Laird'" <jlaird237@cox.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 4:38 PM
> Subject: RE: More carb questions
>
>
> > Slap a little heavy grease around the throttle shafts that will stop a
> > leak.
> > When you get tired of doing this you can always rebush. When they get
> > really bad that won't work anymore as the butterfly will not seal.
> > Crash
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