SU Carb Piston Spring Colour

[Anthony Duffield]

All,

Grateful for advice/information regards the colour of the piston springs for our SU Carbs as fitted to water cooled Commanders.

Thanks
Tony

[johnbirchjar]

A strange request indeed , The colour of the springs is a sort of "spring colour", somewhere between Black and Brown ,very difficult to describe,Is one permitted to ask why? J.B.

[Anthony Duffield]

John,

The piston springs have a certain spring tension depending on application, paste this into your browser: http://sucarb.co.uk/piston-springs.html

The springs in our SU carbs are RED, this information was kindly supplied by George Molyneux a source of excellent information on our rotary's.

The red colour had worn off my springs hence the request for info.

Tony

[johnbirchjar]

I have owned my Classic from new and the Carb Springs have never been Red,always the colour they are now.albeit,I never had reason to look at them before the year 1999,('cos the bike had been in storage for the previous 10 years )J.B.

[Anthony Duffield]

John,

This for your info

Please see attached a photo of two new SU carb piston springs (RED) received today from Burlen.

Hope this helps

Tony

SU Piston Springs (RED).jpg

[johnbirchjar]

Aha ,all has now been revieled.(next time I have my springs out I shall look at them more closely ,)ride safe,J.B.