OK--don't beat up on me for saying this---but---my tri-carb E-Type idles
beautifully. It's in the linkage--and, once set up leave it alone and it
will stay that way for a long time.
> [Original Message]
> From: <Simonlachlan@aol.com>
> To: <davidwjones@cox.net>; <healeys@Autox.Team.Net>
> Date: 10/26/04 11:14:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Tricarb Idle
>
> In a message dated 26/10/2004 05:09:19 GMT Daylight Time,
> davidwjones@cox.net writes:
>
> Have any of you tricarb-ers out there ever seen-heard-owned a tricarb
that
> would idle smoothly at anything under 1200 rpm? Or is it just too much
to ask
> of the rudimentary HS4 carbs?
>
> David W. Jones
> '62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
> Cumberland, RI USA
>
>
>
>
> Mine would idle well enough at about 850 after I'd dicked around with
the
> carbs for what felt like hours. This happy state of affairs would last
for a
> short while and then she'd go "off tune" again.
> Now - and I think this is the point here - I made sure that my timing
etc
> was OK, before I determined that the fault lay with the carbs. I judged
these
> to be in need of a rebuild. Before I did that, I thought what pigs
those HS4s
> are to work with/adjust whilst they are in situ. Also, a bit
diappointing in
> the performance stakes for a three carb setup. So I bought three old but
> sound HD6s and rebuilt them. Still idles at 850, but I don't have to
keep
> fiddling with it.
> Simon.
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