Subject: Re: Rebuilding Stromberg carbs
From: "Riggs, R. (Kevin)" <rkriggs@hsv28.pcmail.ingr.com> at CCGTWINT
Date: 5/2/95 1:27 PM
>What year is your car? I'm not sure when the ZS carburetor changes took
>place, and up until I read Larry's comments, I had never heard that any of
>these carbs were completely non-adjustable. However, I am familiar with the
So far, I seem to buy only those cars that have non-adjustable carbs. They
were on the first environmentally friendly engines, around 1968-1969.
They came "factory adjusted" so mere mortals wouldn't destroy the environment
by mucking up the mixture...
>All of this information is useless if Larry's right and you have a
>non-adjustable carb; but maybe Larry's wrong and you've overlooked the
>mixture screw at the base of the piston bore.
I didn't say that Henry's carbs were that kind. I merely suggested that he
needs to figure out what kind they are. The earlier ones were adjusted by
a nut underneath the float bowl which raised the jet up and down; then
came the "fixed" ones, then came the carbe with the adjustable needle, where
you need that funny tool to keep from tearing your diaphragm up.
>Kevin Riggs
>'72 TR6
>rkriggs@ingr.com
>Huntsville, AL
Larry
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