<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">All--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">I talked with Joe and he is way backed up as in several months.  It is still nice enough here in MD to go driving about 50% of the time.  From what lots of people say it is very possible that the wear is simply confined to those parts of the throttle shafts which pass through the carb body and if that is the case I will simply replace them with new standard sized shafts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Next time a front comes through and the roads get salted I will pull things apart--in the meantime I am driving and in fact that is what I am going to do today.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, BJ8Healeys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbyers@ec.rr.com" target="_blank">sbyers@ec.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Joe Curto charges about $500 to completely rebuild both carbs.  I'm not sure if he would just ream and install the shaft bushings, but his website says he is not accepting anymore work at the moment anyway.<br>
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Steve Byers<br>
HBJ8L/36666<br>
BJ8 Registry<br>
AHCA Delegate at Large<br>
Havelock, NC<br>
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From: Healeys [mailto:<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net">healeys-bounces@autox.<wbr>team.net</a>] On Behalf Of Austin Healeys List<br>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:06 PM<br>
To: Niels Bengaard<br>
Cc: Austin Healey<br>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] SU carb reamer needed<br>
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I can't believe people charge $500 per carb to have this done when it only requires some basic hand tools.<br>
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Andy.<br>
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