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carb-linkage remove-the-slop spring?
Damned if I know where I bought them, or why, but some months ago I fell for an ad for a $20 pair of stainless-steel coil springs, about an inch in diameter and four windings thick--pretty stiff--that supposedly "improved throttle response by removing slop and looseness from the linkage" on Webers and PMOs. I've got PMOs, and now that I look at the cross-linkage with the idle thought of installing the springs, I can't detect one micrometer of looseness.
Anybody ever seen or used these things, or are they just another piece of Porsche snake oil? Stephan
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06-01-2005, 01:39 PM
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Unless it has the stigmata on it from being blessed by Richard Parr, I wouldn't use it. Hard to believe he would have any slop in his carbs... considering the thought & engineering he put into making them.
You might be able to put them on Ebay as rare concours yadayada and get $500 for them... might be a book in that.
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Snake oil, for sure.
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I think I knew that simply because they sat on a corner of my workbench for four months while I kept looking at them and asking, "Why?" I'm gonna buff them on the wheel to within an inch of their stainless-steel life and take them with me to the Porschefest at Mid-America Motorworks in two weeks, where I'm giving a book-signing presentation, and offer them as the Grand Prize. For what, I haven't yet decided.
Stephan
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I installed an additional spring (OSH, ca. $ 1.95) at the cross-bar of my Webers, but could not detect any improvement regarding throttle response. Just some added insurance to reduce the risk of a sticking throttle.
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Re: carb-linkage remove-the-slop spring?
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it's the old story of faith vs reason I guess.
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Lucky
