[Fot] Bent SU needles

[Kas Kastner]

I too have been there with the S.U's in pieces Bob , my wife sitting in the
psgr seat being VERY nice about it all and countless tries finally got
things working well enough to drive home form the dealers shop. They had
kindly allowed me to use the shop afer a compettion but failed to leave
some one to guard me from myself. I guess that is how you learn, especially
in the olden days with no manuals or internert, duh.............. which
part is the jet? all this circa 1952.

*Never be beaten by equipment.*


On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:06 PM Robert Johns via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
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> I got to tell you a story about bent SU needles.  The very first sports
> car that acquired was in Germany in 1954.  I was Air Force and one of the
> flying officers got in deep trouble with the civilian governments and the
> air force and was what they called “riffed” and sent home.  He had a 48 MG
> TC that he had taken over to Germany from the states, that got left behind,
> when he was sent home. Through a fellow sports car club member, we
> negotiated a deal, and I got the MG for about  $400, I think.  We towed  it
> to the hanger that I worked out of, and I started to learn something about
> MGs.  Some where along the line I took one of the SUs apart. I took the
> screws out of the bell and lifted the bell up.  Guess what, the piston came
> up also and proceeded to drop to the ground. The needle was badly bent but
> was not broken.  So, I proceeded to do the roll trick and straightened it
> the best that could.  The next time I had a day off I drove  to Koln in the
> MG and got a new set of needles from the importer. End of story.
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