SU Carb Piston Spring Colour

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Anthony Duffield
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SU Carb Piston Spring Colour

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All,

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

Thanks
Tony
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Re: SU Carb Piston Spring Colour

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A strange request indeed exclaim, The colour of the springs is a sort of "spring colour", somewhere between Black and Brown smiley,very difficult to describe,Is one permitted to ask why? J.B.
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Re: SU Carb Piston Spring Colour

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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
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Re: SU Carb Piston Spring Colour

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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 smiley)J.B.
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Re: SU Carb Piston Spring Colour

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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
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Re: SU Carb Piston Spring Colour

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