Ferrari Mailing List: Manual transmissions - a sticky situation

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

Nice picture Rob – but then you’ve always been a good photographer.

 

I see you have the rubber gasket under the air horns.  VERY tricky to remove the air cleaner without losing one or more of the metal spacers . . .  down the carb throat.  Thankfully the spacers are made of a magnetic material . . . and COUNT all of them before starting the engine, eh?

 

My solution is to immobilize the little bastards in place.  So, with the air cleaner removed, I placed the spacer on the air horn stud and put one drop of Loctite 242 blue on them.  Easy enough to break the bond should I ever need to get into the carb and they seem to stay in place when I remove air cleaner.

 

Again – nice picture.

 

Doug

 

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Lash I realize all that. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and piss everyone off. I still think any car without a gear lever is for pussies! Ha

 

If I had unlimited funds I would probably spend the majority of it on older cars Daytonas, boxers, Lusso‘s, muiras, etc.