[Healeys] running in continued

Bob robertlarson at att.net
Sat Aug 2 13:57:29 MDT 2014


Stromberg 97's?  Or maybe Carter AFB's...

OH, this is a British car forum,  Amal GP...     Have   a 1 3/8 one?  Needed for 
my Matchless Typhoon

Bob

55BN1


On 8/2/2014 3:27 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> Yep. All the great additives--Techron, etc.--the petrol industry has spent years developing to keep intake ports and valves clean is now all but useless (will still keep the injectors clean, presumably).
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> We need to go back to carburettors--anybody know of any good ones?
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> Bob
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> interestingly.. it's now coming to light that "modern technology" is
> causing many of the old problems to resurface. Direct fuel injection,
> which bypasses washing the valves is causing an increase in the
> necessity for "de-coking" What goes around, comes around, eh?
> dave
> On 8/2/2014 11:31 AM, sentenac.rw at gmail.com wrote:
> And Now they're finally going to tell us that tetraethyl lead cruds up
> valves and makes more valve jobs necessary?
>
> -Roland


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