[T3] proper carb spacers?

Sean Bartnik sjbartnik at mac.com
Mon Apr 8 07:30:51 PDT 2019


As a follow-up, here’s a pic of one of my freshly-rebuilt carbs out of the car:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Q7dcNkm/0/4ac39f17/X2/i-Q7dcNkm-X2.jpg

This just shows the carb with throttle valve section installed. There are no spacers shown in this photo. 

-Sean

> On Apr 8, 2019, at 10:13 AM, Sean Bartnik <sjbartnik at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m sorry you’re having such trouble with vapor lock. I also run a dual carb setup with stock mechanical fuel pump and I’ve never had a vapor lock issue even in the worst of summer (95 degrees with 90% humidity). 
> 
> I looked at your pictures and they’re not quite clear (and I’m also used to seeing a single port manifold, not dual port), but it appears to me in your photos that you don’t have any phenolic spacers at all. 
> 
> I just see the carb body with the throttle plate section below it (removable on these carbs from the main body) and then the manifold. 
> 
> I see the gasket between the main carb body and the throttle valve section, but I see no spacer below that between carb and manifold. 
> 
> -Sean
> 
>> On Apr 8, 2019, at 6:13 AM, David Yaghoubian <goob at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Now focusing on the carbs to continue trying to figure out my vapor lock
>> issue, do I have the correct spacers under my carbs? Sorry to have to ask
>> but my Bentley is 1968 and up, and the photos in the Haynes and Scientific
>> American don't show the spacers/gaskets clearly.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Right side carb base
>> 
>> https://ibb.co/0t18hc5
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>> Left side:
>> 
>> https://ibb.co/6WTG1H5
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>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dave 
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