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 6274 Posts Member #: 509 Post Whore Isle of Man |
10th Sep, 2008 at 08:29:53am
Are they all the sprung typeor some fixed needle?
Edited by joeybaby83 on 10th Sep, 2008. "Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"
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 (2)[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/150672766@N03/]Rod Sugden[/url], on Fli) 5988 Posts Member #: 2024 Formally Retired Rural Suffolk |
10th Sep, 2008 at 09:04:10am
The early ones were always fixed needles with an ajustable jet retaining tube (to centre the jet around the fixed needle).
Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ??? |
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6274 Posts Member #: 509 Post Whore Isle of Man |
10th Sep, 2008 at 01:19:13pm
the early hs4's or just early carbs in general?
"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"
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 9502 Posts Member #: 1023 Post Whore Doncaster, South Yorkshire |
10th Sep, 2008 at 01:38:16pm
an '87 carb should have a swinging or 'sprung' needle Yes i moved to the darkside |
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6274 Posts Member #: 509 Post Whore Isle of Man |
10th Sep, 2008 at 01:53:14pm
i can tell the difference, just cant be arsed driving 5 miles to take the dashpot off lol
"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"
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5988 Posts Member #: 2024 Formally Retired Rural Suffolk |
10th Sep, 2008 at 01:54:38pm
On 10th Sep, 2008 joeybaby83 said:
the early hs4's or just early carbs in general? What is the likelyhood an 87' car would have a swinging or fixed badboy? From dim and distant memory, all sizes of the early HS were fixed needle. In my youth, I centred many jets.... The change to sprung loaded needle was all to do with emissions (long complicated explanation.......) but by the mid to late 80s, wasn't everything HIF by then anyway ??? Last example of an HS that I have is my son's 84 Mini and that is sprung needle, and a spare carb from a car of the same age (also sprung needle) but of course you never know the real history - parts may have been changed.... Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ??? |
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 8604 Posts Member #: 573 Formerly Axel Podland |
10th Sep, 2008 at 02:06:22pm
They were still using HS4 carbs on all the 998 Minis up to at least 1990.
Edited by Paul S on 10th Sep, 2008. Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
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5988 Posts Member #: 2024 Formally Retired Rural Suffolk |
10th Sep, 2008 at 02:23:17pm
On 10th Sep, 2008 Paul S said:
They were still using HS4 carbs on all the 998 Minis up to at least 1990. Interesting.... Good old Leyland/Rover must have been different between the Minis and the Metros at that time then - our doner "E" reg 998 Metro had the HIF38 (which I deliberately swapped to an HS4 to keep an 83 Mini "authentic"). Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ??? |
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 1849 Posts Member #: 672 The oversills police Oslo, Norway |
10th Sep, 2008 at 02:36:03pm
if you get a needle for the sprung carb and you find it to be a fixed needle carb, just remove the collar on the needle and use it :) |
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if u can post a pick that would help
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