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One of my carbs has a damaged pilot jet thread, it 'starts' to tighten but i darent carry on as I 'know' it will ruin the thread!

Is there a viable solution to this problem, ie threadlock or I was thinking of a small o ring to hold the jet in place. If the jet fell out, it'll run super rich so no drama really

I have no spare carb body to swap or the funds to get another

I believe I have a few here if you can muster up the funds for postage Simon.

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nice one steve but i dont want to give up yet on this one, if theres a way round it, keeps another 400 body in use, seems to be a shortage!

I may have to admit defeat though

Simon - do you mean that the jet is stuck partially threaded or that the thread is nearly stripped and you can't tighten it up?

If it is the latter, I would clean with laquer thinner and apply RED loctite (sparingly). It won't go anywhere after that as long as you have one or two threads left.

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Rotortech
Indianapolis
1974 S3

Its the latter, thanks for that. My only concern is the crap petrol nowadays, will it dissolve the loctite?

No, it should not dissolve in gasoline. See Chemical Resistance Chart on page two of the Technical Data Sheet http://tds.loctite.com/tds5/docs/271-en.pdf According to this chart engine oil is worse than gasoline on the bonding strength of Loctite. I just chose 271 as an example but I think the red Loctite varieties are pretty similar. You can browse the Loctite website for more information.

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Rotortech
Indianapolis
1974 S3

thanks very much

give this a go




then get a spare body off steve