[Fot] SU Rebuilder

[Sam Halkias]

And Paltech also does a wonderful Hitachi SU conversion for TR's! He even
handles Webers. All of his work comes out looking and working better than new.
I have used him for two years and probably have had over a dozen sets of carbs
and conversions done with zero problems.

Sam

> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 04:00:40 +0000
> From: dlhogye at comcast.net
> To: alfetta95 at optonline.net
> CC: FOT at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] SU Rebuilder
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> Joe Curto did my carbs and missed a couple things. I had meticulously
cleaned 3 disassembled carbs and sent them to Joe to build a set with the best
parts between them.
> While tuning I found that the dampers didn't match, one had a long shaft and
one short. I also found that one of the pistons was machined to a larger
diameter where the damper fits and one of the carbs, after about 300 miles of
use, started to leak fuel from the main jet seal.
> The problem might be that Joe doesn't actually do the work, but I'm not sure
about that. In any event, details were missed. Oh, Joe did send a nice SU
coffee mug with the carbs, but unfortunately it was poorly packaged and the
handle was broken off during shipping.
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> I had communicated with Paltech before I send mine to Curto. They sure
seemed to be on their game and detail oriented. Their polishing is unique.
Their price is, if I remember correctly, less than Curto, but not by much.
Both are very reasonably priced and about half to 1/3rd the cost of a new set
of SUs, depending on HS6s or H6s. The difference in price was probably about
the cost of a coffee mug.
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> I checked Ray Marty's website and I think it's a fair bet that Ray will
actually be doing the work and to a quality level. One photo on his website
shows him milling the carb to manifold gasket surface... Really? The photos
remind me of a very detail oriented, shall I say completely annal retentive
machinist friend of mine.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd Redmond" <alfetta95 at optonline.net>
> To: "FOT at autox.team.net FOT at autox.team.net" <FOT at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:46:07 PM
> Subject: [Fot] SU Rebuilder
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> FoT,
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> Just finished my first tractor engine build. I'll post a pic on the FoT
> Facebook page.
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> Looking for someone to rebuild the SU's. B Who is B recommended? B British
> Classic Motors are away until end of February. B I could wait until then.
> B Was just checking on others.
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> Thanks
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> Todd Redmond
> TS #29341
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