I would think you could get away with the intake gasket, taking care to
torque it down in tiny increments, since it will have lost some of its
"crushability". Good luck.
on 2/20/03 2:03 AM, Larry Colen at lrcar@red4est.com wrote:
> Derwerken vas derspringensproingen.
>
> What a glorious pain in the butt!. With the heatshield for the carb,
> it was nearly impossible to remove the cover to the float with the
> carb in place, and only possible if I bent the heatshield out of the
> way. Unfortunately it was well beyond my dexterity (or probably the
> dexterity of anyone born with finger rather than tentacles) to
> actually fix the jet adjustment with the carb in place.
>
> it is also impossible to remove the carb from the blower with the unit
> installed. Hence my post asking about reusing manifold gaskets. I've
> got it back together, and with the carb backed off to a reasonable
> mixture at idle, I seem to have pinging again at full throttle around
> 3000 RPM, so I'll have to richen up the midrange mixture yet
> again. I'll wait until tomorrow when I can actually see the CO meter
> while I'm driving.
>
> I've got way too much work to do tomorrow night to get the car ready
> to haul to the track Friday after work. Oh well, sleep is for sissies.
>
> LRC
>
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