In a message dated 7/4/2008 1:45:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
gtpjimgammon@yahoo.com writes:
I did discover something wrong with the car. I had not removed the
insulators
the first time, because they were very securely glued to the mainfold. But
this time I did. I found that some nimcompoop had not done it right many
years
ago. Part of one gasket between the insulator and the manifold was missing,
and I expect that air leak was my problem in the past. I'd guess .005 x 1/2",
enough to cause havoc, but be unseen.
Better than great globs of gasket goo. Those gaskets are part of the
insulator so they are not available from Nissan seperately. Not a problem
though,
cut one out of regular gasket paper. Here's what I do. Use an exacto knife and
carefully scrape the old gasket off. Once the bleeding stops I buff the
insulators with compound and a cloth wheel. Folks keep asking where I find new
insulators.
On the the LATEST problems.
I put in the new ZTherapy carbs, and had no problem until I went to do the
high speed synchronization. With the balanace screw REMOVED, the rear carb
open first. There is no adjustment. I believe it is in correctly. I had to
make a shim to take up the slop (about .030) in the front linkage interface
to
get them equal.
Not Ztherapys fault. The tabs that link this together are so commonly bent
that I'm not at all surprised that you had this problem. Often I'll need to
tweek them on the bench. If you study the linkage you should be able to see
where one or more are not quite square. A little bend and you should be good to
go. That's one benefit that I have selling the manifold and carbs as a set, I
can do a check for that on the bench.
keith "packing the ice cream maker, carb stuff, and heading for shasta"
williams
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