On 1/26/2011 8:56 AM, Peter Caldwell wrote:
> Several decades ago I worked in NJ and we made SU jets for various
> companies. Another manufacturer on the West coast also made jets. They
> had a large run of them that were not crimped into the plastic right
> angle bit very well, and some were shorter and some were longer. They
> should all be the same length. There are only 2 different .090 jets. The
> black ones for all BMC applications, and the red ones for Triumph
> Spitfires, predominately. And that difference is only the choke linkage
> hook-up boss, which the newer vendors have alleviated with a different
> design. (Spitfire manifolds have the carbs horizontal, where BMC
> applications typically are angled)
>
> You must have had a N.O. S(hit) jet! (made in the US, btw;-) (look at
> the very bottom of the plastic where it angles. You should see a letter.
> Let me know if it is an "s")
There IS an "S" on the short jet tube.
It is new, or NOS and it probably came from the couple of rebuild kits I
bought at Carlisle this past Spring for $5 each.
1 was fine, the other was N-O-Shit.
So this one was NOT one of the ones you made way back when.
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Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
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