<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">All--</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Some time back I posted about possibly needing to ream out the carb bodies and put in oversized shafts.  </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Due to the fine weather here in the mid-Atlantic I did not get around to removing the carburetors until yesterday when snow was forecast--and naturally did not happen. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">In any case I disassembled everything this morning and--as many of you predicted--the wear appears to be confined solely to the sections of the shafts that pass through the carb bodies. There is a noticeable difference in feel when I partially withdraw the shafts so they bear on the non-bearing ends and so I am sure that standard shafts will do the trick.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Thanks as always for the good advice.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,tahoma,calibri,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Best--Michael Oritt</span></div></div>