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[Car-Nut]

Just removing my carbs as often the case the last nut in the most akward place wasnt coming off



Once I realised it was turning the stud out and it was fully out, I wiggled the setup forward and put loctite on the stud and screwed it back in.

My problem is my Loctite is German and so are the instructions on the tube How long does it take to cure before I can take the nut off the stud again


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Car-Nut
'62 S1 Jaguar E-Type 3.8 FHC
'70 420G - 13th from last RHD
'70 420G - 17th from last RHD

[michael1703]

mine did that, i just left the nut on the stud and screw the stud back in when refitting

buy a handfull of 5/16ths brass manifold nuts, they look smarter and dont get stuck

[Car-Nut]

Cheers Michael, good idea

how's yours going Used it much this year
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Car-Nut
'62 S1 Jaguar E-Type 3.8 FHC
'70 420G - 13th from last RHD
'70 420G - 17th from last RHD

[michael1703]

mines going well apart from burning quite a bit of oil

it failed its MOT on the front V rubbers but has behaved itself otherwise, only managed about 600 miles so far due to work/price of fuel

[Car-Nut]

Sorry to be a bit green, but on a 4.2 XK engine what's the burning a lot of oil down to
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Car-Nut
'62 S1 Jaguar E-Type 3.8 FHC
'70 420G - 13th from last RHD
'70 420G - 17th from last RHD

[Nic Jarman]

I have asked this question before (elsewhere) and could not get an answer so here we go again.
With the 2 front float bowls being infront of the carb body does the car suffer from fuel starvation under heavy or maybe not so heavy braking?
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1936 Morris 8 Series 1
1973 MGB roadster
1977 MG Midget 1500
Dax Rush

[victor 101]

Highly unlikely as the fuel is drawn from the bottom of the float chamber and with the float resting on the top there isnt really anywhere for it to go.