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From: Keith0alan@aol.com
Full-name: Keith0alan
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:41:24 EDT
Subject: Re: Carb cleaning tip, what not to do, FYI from JC
To: matt@vander-bend.com
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Quite likely true on both points. The engine pistons and cylinders
were marked as to being slightly over or under size and picked to match. The
same thing could have been done with the carbs.
keith
> I posed the same question to Joe Curto and here's what he has to say:
>
> "Matt, I do not believe that they were machined as matched sets but I do
> think that they were matched up after machining and have the "drop test
> done" But I think it is naive to think that previous owners or mechanics
> kept them in matched pairs."
>
> Joe
> www.joecurto.com
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