Hi all,
I'm having no luck finding a machine shop that will ream SU's for oversize
throttle shafts. Some of them actually admit that they won't do it because they
don't make enough money off of it. Instead, they want me to pay them to rebuild
the carbs completely. Fat chance.
I've found a tool store that will sell me the correct reamer (.323" or 'P'
reamer) for $16.50 plus tax. This seems like a good thing to own when I own
eight sets of SU's. The problem is, the reamer has a smooth shank to fit in a
drill press or mill and I don't have either. I could probably rig up something
so that I could ream by hand, but I don't think I could do it acurately enough.
Here are the options as I see it. Drive a car getting 10mpg to San Diego (200
miles one way) to have my old machinist do it. Take reamer, carb bodies, and
throttle shafts on a tour of all of the local machine shops, bat my eyelashes
and hope someone takes pity on me. Mail the aforementioned bits to some kind
person on the list to be reamed and mailed back to me (hint, hint). Widen my
area of search and try to find a real machine shop.
BTW, I'm in the Inland Empire, which is a euphemism for the hellhole east of LA
on the border of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. Truck pulls are the
height of culture around here. I'm near Pomona where I grew up and which I've
always referred to as the armpit of LA County. I'm now in the armpit of San
Bernardino County, birthplace of the Hell's Angels and John Birch Society. If
you see "Berdoo" on the back of a biker's jacket, he or she is from San
Bernardino. Does anyone know of a good machine shop in this area?
All suggestions, advice, offers gratefully accepted. Help!
Denise Thorpe
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