FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
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You should try an MG! Mind you, it was a lot easier to get them
into
that than the Rambler, but less fun when you got inside. Unless you
were realy into getting levers stuck into some uncofortable places
(and I bet here's a
website somwhere that capitises on exactly that sort of thing)

Bertie



In the MG you probably had to stop halfway and adjust the SU's. :-)



(just perpetrating a myth about them although an old girlfriend
insisted on owning Triumphs and they kept me busy.)

No myth! I was at the damned things all the time. It was a TD, which
wasn't even an anteek then..


Bertie

Should have had a 62 Austin Healy - 3 of those damn things on it!!


Cool. I knew a guy who had one of those things. Very fast..

BTW - the tonneau cover makes a good substitute for a blanket... )

He he. Well, noone could see much of what you were up to with those side
curtains...

Bertie



Actually, they were quite simple to work on.....individually! The trick was
to get them to play together well. Very touchy adjustments, especially if
the carb (or engine for that matter) had any wear at all. Then there was the
problem of getting the carbs to do the same thing at the same time,
linkage-wise, which was not necessarily just making sure that throttle
positions on each carb matched. Their performance was affected greatly by
even a little wear. Kinda like the Amal's on a couple of BSA's I had.
TP