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Another funny thing is since doing that, I have now founf a document for SU carbs and it shows the sawtooth plate closest to the manifold withe the spacer in between it and the carb.

Declan303

Thanks guys for the help. I stripped the two carbs off yestreday to investigate what might be wrong and have a look at the valves on the butterflies. When I took the first carb off the manifold, the gaskets, sawtooth plate, spacer all came with it. I operated the butterfly and immediatly noticed why...

Yes there are valves on the butterflys

I have the carbs all put back together, new gaskets, new diaphrams, float level checked. mounted on the manifold and the whole lot refitted to the engine with new valley (inlet manifold) gasket. Now proplem is that Im at the stage of trying to set the idle and mixture on the carbs. After multiple at...

Cheers Ron thanks for info.

Declan

Thanks Ron,
I have now also noticed that there is a small arrow head on one edge of the plastic spacer. Should that arrow point twards carb or manifold. It appears that the center apperture of the spacer has one edge tapered more so than the other side

Declan

Maybe some can help. I am cleaning up a set of carbs for the v8. I took them off the inlet manifold and didn't find the gaskets as I thought I would so am a bit confused as to which is correct way to fit or does it matter. What I found from the manifold side out to the carb was manifold --- Gasket -...