mikephillips
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Be happy to talk about the soft top install if you want. If you do a search there should be one or more threads where I go through the process, you might want to check those out as well since I list the tools I use.
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Enjoy.
"I am not much worried about rain, have been soaked many times in a Sunbeam, but am a little bit concerned about the sun for all the hours of driving."
I took the whole trip with the top down, not toooo bad, but don't forget the sun screen like I did(didn't really think about it) boy was I red faced and had a very strange tan on my legs where my shorts ended and the shade from the car began.....I'll be better prepared next week.......
Allan, Hows the car running ?
Tom j
Carbs are crap. I made an appt with the carb guys for Monday.
Your not going to "drop it off" RIGHT ?
Allen,
Forgive me if you have gone over this and talked about it, chaulk it up to CRS.
When I worked on Tom's car we had a real problem getting the intake to seal up, due to the new style intake gasket. The carbs would not sync or respond well to adjustments due to a vacuum leak and if they will not sync or are not synced the other adjustments are pretty much out the window. Do you have uni sync? have you looked for a vacuum leak at the intake.
My SV had a lean condition that nothing would correct, I just fattened the jets and made it as good as it got. Later when I stripped the car to a shell I found the T fitting where the two tanks come togeter to the main gas feed line to be just slap filled with paint chips. Cannot prove that restriction was the problem but have to wonder.
If you take the carbs to the Invasion would be interesting to bolt them on another car and see how they respond
Allan, if you can't make it to Tipp City in the Air-Pine, make sure you bring the carbs. I'll bet someone (not me, bro) can take them apart and find the problem.
BTW, I know absolutely zilch about Zeniths, but don't they have a third (maybe fourth) adjustment, float height and drop? I think I can see how very low fuel level could make the carbs nonresponsive to adjustment. Also, typically on that type of carb, the adjustment screw is idle richness and active only at low speeds.
Bill