[Healeys] tricarb vacuum pick off

I Erbs eyera3 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 22:43:46 MDT 2010


Does not matter which carb you get vaccum from. Any parts store will  
have vaccum hose

I Erbs
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On Oct 28, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Steven Kemple <skemple at tidewater.net>  
wrote:

> I am a fresh subscriber to the list although I have been around  
> Healeys and
> have  viewed the archives for quite some time.  The current car is a  
> '62
> tricarb that I have had just a few months.  While changing out the  
> exhaust
> system, I found that I had a cracked exhaust manifold.  So out  
> everything came
> to replace the manifold.  The carbs, I was told, had been overhauled  
> but they
> have been nothing but trouble.  Since I never want to do this job  
> again with
> the engine in the car, I gulped and got a set of new carbs from  
> Moss.  That is
> the next thing to go in the engine bay.  The vacuum advance  
> connection on the
> original carb set is on the rear carb.  On the new set it is on the  
> center
> carb.  Other than a short vacuum advance line, does this present any  
> other
> problems?  What is a good source for the line if that is all I need  
> to do?
> Looks like I need about another 6 inches.
>
> Steve Kemple
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