[Healeys] engine rpms

[Alan Seigrist]

John -

HD8 Carbs don't use throttle shaft springs, they use lever return
springs, so this is not the issue with his car.

Hope the fires have avoided your house!

Cheers!

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


On 10/29/07, John Soderling <jsoderling at astound.net> wrote:
> The problem often is that the that the return springs on the carb shaft get
> weak with age and fail to return the throttle shaft all the way back to the
> stops.  Mine did this only when the car had been driven for a while and
> things were hot.  You may be able to wind the return spring tighter on the
> carb shaft.  I added a short throttle shaft lever to my shaft between the
> two carbs and added an auxiliary spring from the lever end to the
> carb-to-carb fuel line.  The extra spring now always pulls the carb shaft
> all the way back to the stops at idle.
> Vroom vrooom,
> John
> Erika the Red
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Lemon" <glemon at neb.rr.com>
> To: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut at gmail.com>; "TERRY COLL" <coll44 at msn.com>
> Cc: "austin healey" <Healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 8:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] engine rpms
>
>
> > Alan may very well be right, another possibility is that these motors also
> > have a lot of oil in the sump that takes some time to warm up, so idle
> > speed
> > does tend to increase as the oil warms up and thins, which really does
> > take
> > a while on these cars.
> >
> > Greg Lemon
> > 54 BN1
> > _______________________________________________