[Fot] was webbers 40 dcoe now SU floats

[Jack W. Drews]

Time for somebody to start a little project to get one of the many 
commercial producers of carb floats to make some in the 
configurations we need. I'm covered with special projects at the 
minute, but a google search on this subject turns up some interesting stuff.

At 10:47 AM 3/16/2008, fubog1 at aol.com wrote:
>We had one fail in Jeffs car Friday morning as well, fortunately it
>lasted the race. The solder joint at one end of the tube failed.
>By plastic I assume that means changing over to the side pivot plastic
>floats, which seem to work fine except that they are sometimes prone to
>g-load issues.
>Glen
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gt6steve at aol.com
>To: BillDentin at aol.com
>Cc: fot at autox.team.net
>Sent: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:12 am
>Subject: Re: [Fot] webbers 40 dcoe
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>Interesting observations and not a word there I would dispute.  I
>simply
>went to the plastic floats and never looked back.  Has anyone had a
>failure with
>the plastic?
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>Steve...I think  you know that we have had more than our fair share of
>float
>problems these past  few years.  In fact, Bob Wismer had more float
>issues
>down in Sebring this  past week end.  We agree with the suggested
>modern fuel
>additive issues you  mentioned, but also we're convinced 'long tows'
>with empty
>fuel bowls are a  contributing factor.  For what it is worth, we
>believe fuel
>evaporates  quickly from the fuel bowel and the floats bounce/rub on
>the post
>during long  tows.  Bob has taken to ensuring the fuel bowls are full
>before he
>starts  any long tow.  He hit some 'nasty winter' weather in route from
>our
>shop in  Wisconsin to Florida.  He got stuck over twenty-four hours in
>Indianapolis  during a snow storm.  Maybe he didn't load the bowls
>before starting out
>  again, but he had another failure at Sebring.
>
>Two more comments.
>
>ONE, I bought my last replacement floats directly from Joe Curo (sp?),
>the
>SU specialist out east.  Might be too early to leap to a conclusion,
>but I've
>had no failures with his since.  The ones I purchased from Moss,
>Roadster
>Factory, Victoria British, etc., all appear to come from the same
>source.  The
>ones from Joe are distinctive (packaging, special markings,  etc.).
>
>TWO, across the pond, Bill Woodhouse was the founder of English
>Specials
>Tornado Cars, and built the Talisman, Typhoon, and Thunder Bolt we
>race.  He
>recently sent me an article that suggests there is an issue with
>modern solder
>(no lead), and a reaction when using it to repair floats with old
>solder
>containing lead.  It seems there is a reaction, and failure.   Not sure
>how that
>fits in the mix, but it might explain why we've not had good  luck with
>the ones
>we've repaired ourselves.
>
>Bill  Dentinger
>
>PS...Did you know?  Bob Wismer told me that the hotel  rooms with a
>view in
>Indianapolis are cheaper?
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