<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Exactly. And the P6 gasket is a good guess too.<div><br><div>Yours</div><div>Vern<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 6, 2024, at 1:55 PM, Tom Rymes via Rovernet <rovernet@rovernet.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 6, 2024, at 12:58 PM, Vern Inkspot via Rovernet <rovernet@rovernet.org> wrote:<br><br>A “proper” HD8 has an actual idle circuit which was removed for the P6 application.<br></blockquote><br>Interesting, Vern! Does the Rover instead rely on propping the throttle open slightly, like the HS carbs on an MGB (and presumably the HS8 on the later 2000TCs)?<br><br>I once had a 3-Litre P5 that I couldn’t figure out how to tune properly, as it would just refuse to run on the idle circuit. I eventually removed it and found a gasket that did not have a hole for the idle circuit, thus blocking it completely. Perhaps that gasket was meant for a P6?<br><br>Tom<br>_______________________________________________<br>Rovernet mailing list<br>Rovernet@rovernet.org<br>http://rovernet.org/mailman/listinfo/rovernet_rovernet.org<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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