[Healeys] carb lifting pin

[Peter Schauss]

I use the wires themselves to lift the vacuum pistons since one of my
lifting pins sticks.

Peter Schauss
1963 BJ7
1980 MGB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob Spidell
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 7:13 PM
> To: Bob Johnson
> Cc: Healeys
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] carb lifting pin
> 
> There's an inexpensive SU tuning kit that is little more than a couple
> plastic tubes you stick in the inner part of the vacuum piston, and a
> couple of bent wires you stick in the tubes (there's also a handy jet-
> centering 'tool;' it's almost worth buying the kit just for that).
> 
> Anyway, you put the tubes in the vacuum pistons then set the wires in so
> they point exactly to each other. Then, when you lift the pin you can see
> the wire rise; the wire is about 1/32" thick so when it rises one of its
> widths you're close.
> 
> Yes, the pin goes up a ways before it contacts the base of the vacuum
> piston.
> 
> Bob