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So last night I got my arse off the sofa and went out in the garage to rebuild my carb. To be honest it was quite straightforward, if anything I spent longer actually cleaning crud off the outside of the carb body than anything else.
I will try to write up a method to put in the "How to" section for future reference.
Anyway, couple of q's.....

When I dismantled the assy (e.g. took carb off inlet) mine has a black plastic spacer of approx 4mm thickness, that fits between the throttle cable bracket and the inlet manifold. Is there any reason for this to be there? Do I need to keep it or can I chuck it, as it seems pointless?

Second one, does anyone know if the cable levers are available new? As mine are fairly manky and look rubbish now all the rest of it is nice and clean. Iain??


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Sold the turbo and seeing what the C20XE can do!

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Sure i can get hold of some. That said mine when in the cleaning tank at work and they came up very nice *smiley*

Ill check with burlen on what they can do.

Spacer i think you find is so that the throttle clears the manifold. the curved part of that bracket will hit the manifold if left out i think. ill take a look at mine tonight if i remember.

Its esay to rebuild carbs, just waiting for the new ultrasonic bath to arrive at work so i can get them looking like new!

Also mine engine ran so much better once it had been done it was unreal.

*happy*

Carb kits are in stock *wink*


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iain, what do you do? i only ask since you seem to have acess to a lot of cool toys at work??

And on the 7th day........... God created turbochargers!


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Sold the turbo and seeing what the C20XE can do!

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Currently work at siemens gas turbines in combustion design but going for an interview in the morning to become a combustion engineer. fingers crossed and all that *happy*

Yeah lots of cool stuff to take advantage of and borrow. plus plenty of knowledge in the office to get info from. One day ill figure these a series out for sure!

I want to at some point get a fully modeled Aseries head to give to CFD to sort out the best chamber/ piston dish design but its having the time to sort it.


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Iain, see if you can get me those levers. Mine are all corroded and horrible, call me a tart if you want <All- TART!> but I want them to be shiny and cad plated and golden.......

I would use our cleaning stuff at work, but they tend to clean 8 ton steel billets with shotblasters, so I can't see my levers coming out as anything other than dust!!!!!

Where you going to try and be a combustion engineer? We use a few combustion firms here as we have a lot of gas and oil fired furnaces for re-heating or hardening/tempering steel.


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At siemens in the same office im in now *happy* find out tomorrow!

its simliar stuff i guess but just developing burner systems for gas turbines (aka industrial jet engines really)


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Aah right! Well good luck anyway.

I have done some work in the past on gas compressors, compress natural gas to feed submerged burners. Quite interesting stuff although actually working on them can be a bit hairy!


On 29th Nov, 2016 madmk1 said:


On 28th Nov, 2016 Rob Gavin said:
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