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Re: [Healeys] Hd-8 diaphragms

To: Wayne <Waschu2@charter.net>, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Hd-8 diaphragms
From: <tomfelts@windstream.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:08:52 -0600
I just replaced the diaphrams in one of my HD8's on the E-Type.  Bought it from 
Welsh Jag.  It was black.  

1500 miles in 5 years?:):):)  Don't get her out much eh?

Tom


---- Wayne <Waschu2@charter.net> wrote: 
> Hello List,
> 
>                I thought I would update the list as to what I found with 
> my leaking HD-8 carburetor diaphragms. What I had installed five years 
> ago where the Blue / Green diaphragms. After five years and 1500 miles 
> the parts of the jet  diaphragms exposed to the fuel had turned brittle 
> and black with numerous small cracks causing my leaks. The parts of the 
> diaphragms not exposed to the fuel was still soft and pliable. I talked 
> to Joe Curto today and he said "he has his own  diaphragms parts made 
> and has not had a history of people complaining about leaks."  Joe said 
> his current diaphragms are black rubber. The current M*** parts are also 
> black rubber, but I don't know their source. There are also new 
> diaphragms made by a company in Australia that are black  and are sold 
> by Sports and Classics. They also state "they have no history of 
> complaints." I do not know the source of the Blue / Green diaphragms and 
> I do not recall who I bought them from, but I don't think I would use 
> them again based on my experience. Alcohol free fuel does not seem  to 
> be available in my area of Connecticut. This is also a major problem for 
> my late Eighties boat with a Johnson outboard with a built in fiberglass 
> fuel tank.  Ethanol fuel has become a major Pain in my Ass and has cost 
> me a lot of money and grief and poor gas millage with my daily driver.  :(
> 
> 
>                                                                              
>                                         Wayne
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