Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Manual transmissions - a sticky situation

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

Actually Hans - I like your idea more better.

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Doug

 

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From: hans.e.hansen [at] gmail.com <hans.e.hansen [at] gmail.com> On Behalf Of Hans E. Hansen
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 8:44 AM
To: Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net>
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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Manual transmissions - a sticky situation

 

Or turn the spacers upside down so they come off with the air cleaner....

 

Hans.

 

On 11/10/21, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

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

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> 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?

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> 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.

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> Again – nice picture.

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