If you wanted to fix a shaft leak you'd fix it like you'd fix a Weber. Drill out the shaft holes and re-bush. Ream to size. Plain old-fashioned mechanical repair. On 10/21/07, Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > The TB with the two switches is an early 1.9. > > The TB where you're showing light around the butterfly valve is faulty. > You > either need a new one or you need to fix that one. You can fix it by using > JB weld to make a tighter seal: put a lubricant on the brass plate so it > won't stick, then build up JB weld on the TB itself, working the valve > back > and forth to get the proper height and to make sure it doesn't stick. > There's a write-up on the Samba somewhere. It's not hard to do. However, > if > there's excessive clearance around the shaft itself, I don't know what > you'd > do. >
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