[Roadsters] How do you tighten that nut?

[Keith0alan at aol.com]

The general drill for installing the carbs and intake is:
 
Install the manifold with out carbs and heat shield. This allows best  access 
to the various nuts.
 
Install the heat shield.
 
Install the carbs.
 
This seems like more work but getting to those bottom manifold nuts is such  
a pain with it all together. That and the annoying water and vacuum leaks from 
 the manifold nuts being tightened unevenly. 
 
I've received cores with the heat shield totally mangled from trying to  bend 
it out of the way to get to the bottom nuts. It only takes a minute to  
remove it. 
 
keith
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/1/2008 6:10:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
matthews517 at earthlink.net writes:

You know  the one. That nut behind the rear header tube, under the back
Solex. It's  too far to reach from the front, snaking your arm under the
carbs. The  starter is in the way to do it from below. I can't quite reach
from under  the inner fender and above the frame with the car jacked up and
the front  tire off. 



My only thought is to pull the carb(s) off the  intake manifold, tighten the
nuts, and re-assemble the carb(s) onto the  manifold. (I don't want to do
this if I can help it).



The  car is running INSANELY well, except for the cloud of steam coming out
of  the car when I punch it. Coolant is leaking from the water passage  which
goes from the head into the intake manifold, at the gasket. It sprays  down
onto (and into) the header and makes a LOT of  steam.



New head gasket, new valve seats, new valve seals, new  timing chains,
beautiful (if I do say so myself) yellow alternator and  valve cover, new
gaskets all over the place, new heater hoses, and new fuel  hoses. 



I'll put up some of the pix AFTER she's done. I've  taken pictures throughout
the process.



Dean. YOU  ROCK!!!!!



Hey, I got to buy $700 worth of new Craftsman tools  too! :-)



Matt (bloody knuckle) Smith, in TN

And Loreli  (She's a STEAMY hot 70 SRL  Solex)
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