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July 31, 2004
Jens
I told you it was well worn! The other spindle wasn't nearly as
bad, but decided to replace the pair of them while I was doing it.
Clean the carbs? Nothing more than elbow grease! I washed
them down thoroughly several times with turps (kerosense)
using an inch paintbrush and changing the turp's when it got too
dirty. I then scraped off the gasket material with a stanley blade
and rotary wire brush cleaned the gasket surfaces only. The
rotary wire brush is too harsh for the soft metal casting surface of
the carb itself and leaves scratches in the surface of the metal,
so used wire wool dipped in turps, coarse then fine to scrub the
surface of the carb body and components.
It takes a while to do it, but I'm pretty pleased with the results, as
a neighbour remarked - they look like new!
Perhaps I over polished the carb tops, I didn't go overboard on
them - I could have brought them up to a mirror finish if I'd carried
on - but wanted to maintain some of the original sheen so only
polished them so far and to match the rest of the carb body.
As the diehard purists will tell you - the carb tops were never
polished, but it's my car and Il do what I like with it ;)
Nigel
"amukdigiphoto" < amukdigiphoto@... > 33205
Posted on July 31, 2004 10:46 AM
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