[Healeys] Carb removal

[David P]

Better get in on this thread... here's one just made last week for MGA 
front bumpers... PITA

On 12/1/2020 7:22 PM, Mark Donaldson via Healeys wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> Bill Bolton made me this one nearly 40 years ago.  I use it in a 
> surprising number of difficult – read: ‘ impossible’ – spaces with 
> generally considerable success.
>
> Mark
>
> Ardmore, NZ
>
> *From:*Brian Drab <bgdrab at redzone.ca>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 2 December 2020 9:08 a.m.
> *To:* Leonard Berkowitz <DrBerkowitz at hotmail.com>; healeys at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Carb removal
>
> I too had the problem of removing my carbs, but on a BJ8 - which 
> because of the carb size I think was probably harder. I had to 
> actually modify a perfectly good wrench to get the bottom inside nuts 
> loosened.
>
> A lot of heat and experimenting before I got it right and even then it 
> only gave me enough purchase to probably get 1/16 of a turn of the nut!
>
> But loosening the nuts paled in comparison to getting those same nuts 
> back on. Getting each nut actually located on the stud probably took 
> one hour each and it involved using grease on my finger tip to hold 
> the nut in place and try to turn it that first segment of a turn to 
> get it started.
>
> Probably one of the worst jobs I have encountered in my years of 
> working on cars.
>
> Brian Drab
>
> AHOABC
>
> *From:*Leonard Berkowitz <DrBerkowitz at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:DrBerkowitz at hotmail.com>>
> *Sent:* November 30, 2020 1:40 PM
> *To:* healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* [Healeys] Carb removal
>
> It has been thirty years since the last time I needed to do anything 
> major on my BJ7 so my memory is not quite clear. Can I remove the rear 
> carb independently from the front carb? I have already designed a tool 
> to access the lower hold down bolts.  If I remember correctly, I may 
> have rebuilt and installed the carburetors when I rebuilt the engine, 
> so access was not much of a problem.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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