[Fot] HS6 carb hesitation TR4

[Justin Wagner]

How many of you are running a carb set up like this photo of "Jack's 
car" sent by Tony?
http://www.tonydrews.com/Done08engineR.jpg
--Justin





Tony Drews wrote:

> With the 3 screws, there are 3 theoretical orientations of the float 
> bowl tops.  Normally with the pivot at 90 to the centerline of the 
> car, you will have the fuel line coming out to the right or to the 
> left - I forget how the overflow line orientation goes.
>
> You can mostly see it in this picture of Jack's car:
> http://www.tonydrews.com/Done08engineR.jpg
>
> My recollection is that the pivot is at the front on the front carb 
> and at the rear on the rear carb.
>
> Do whatever you have to do to the fuel line routing to get this 
> orientation, it's very important.  We could reliably cause a major 
> stumble in either right or left hand corners with any other float bowl 
> top orientation.
>
> You can swap the tops between carbs if that helps.
>
> - Tony
>
> At 06:53 PM 6/23/2010, tylerpthompson at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Hi Tony and Mike-
>>
>> I have the same problem. Unfortunately, the current float bowl tops 
>> and 3 screw configuration doesn't give me this option.  All I can do 
>> is turn them 180 degrees. No space for fuel line if I place the pivot 
>> front or rear.
>>
>> Are there options or different tops for the bowls that can help solve 
>> this problem that folks are aware of?
>>
>> Coming out of left handers right now floods badly and allows others 
>> to make some great passes!
>>
>> Thx in advance for the help
>>
>> Ty
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony Drews <tony at tonydrews.com>
>> Sender: fot-bounces at autox.team.net
>> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:18:19
>> To: Mike Mehl<mike.mehl at yahoo.com>; Triumph Friends 
>> of<fot at autox.team.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Fot] HS6 carb hesitation TR4
>>
>> Mike, the tops of the float bowls need to be oriented so that the
>> pivot for the float is at the front or the rear, not to either side.
>>
>> - Tony Drews
>>
>> At 11:34 PM 6/19/2010, Mike Mehl wrote:
>> >I finally have my head issues sorted out and ready to run in Seattle 
>> July 4
>> >weekend.  The car seems to hesitate when I turn the car a sharp 
>> left.  Any
>> >thoughts would be great.
>> >
>> >Mike
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