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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