[Healeys] A bit of tuning advice

[Don Hardie]

Water in a plastic spray bottle does the job without any of the aforesaid
problems.

Don
NSW OZ




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From: Richard Ewald
<richard.ewald at gmail.com>
To: Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Leeks
<Paull at glasgows.co.uk>; healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Thu, 1 July, 2010
12:16:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] A bit of tuning advice

That is actually
how is it supposed to be done.  Professional mechanics use
a tool that screws
on top of a small (hand held) propane bottle with a hose
and a push button.
Put the hose near the area you want to check for a
vacuum leak and push the
button.  Idle changes = leak.
This is far safer than the commonly use spray
carb cleaner or WD-40 all over
the engine.  I have seen more than one guy set
an engine on fire that way.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Oudesluys
<coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:

> Jezus, are you out of your mind, highly
dangerous with sparks from the
> distributor around and possible blow back.
Use a bit of WD40 instead, but
> still be carefull.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
Martin Jansen wrote:
>
>> A quick way to check for intake leak -while engine
is running take a
>> welder's
>> torch or a propane torch turn the acetylene
gas or propane gas do not
>> light,
>> run the nozzle around the carb
connections and around the intake  manifold
>> connections. If engine speed
increase you have a leak.
>>
>>
>> Happy Healeying,   Marty
www.jule-enterprises.com
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