[Healeys] carb lifting pin

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 16:04:24 MDT 2011


Bob -

Probably my best skill is in balancing carbs.

The lifting pin is useless.

Always better to take the air cleaners off and use a small screwdriver
to lift the dashpot pistons by hand.

Regards,

Alan

On 10/18/11, Bob Johnson <bjsbj8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The fuel mixture thread talked about the lifting pin. Does anyone have
> a good way to tell when you have raised the pin 1/32"? On my car it
> seems as though the pin raises maybe 1/16" before it feels as though
> it is contacting anything and then I start to raise the needle. Is
> this right? How can I tell if I'm actually raising anything and when
> have I raised the pin 1/32" when I can't see anything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Johnson
> BJ8
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