| Author | Message | ||
| Matt Morgan (Kermit)
Junior Member Username: Kermit Post Number: 100 Registered: 8-2001 |
You may very well have a good point there on the threads. Perhaps a 12 point nut. | ||
| JRV (Jrvall)
Member Username: Jrvall Post Number: 569 Registered: 11-2002 |
I was taking them off (77GTB) with the deck lid on when I wrote that Kermit. And put them back on today. I think Ferrari/Webber used studs because the Pot Metal is Soft Enough that removing screws will wear out the threads before to long.. | ||
| Matt Morgan (Kermit)
Junior Member Username: Kermit Post Number: 99 Registered: 8-2001 |
JRV, after a nights rest, ( I had justquit porting heads when I logged on), I feel my response was not in the spirit of exchange of info.My apologies. Saturday I removed the horns from a clients '79, and I was glad that I had replaced them with allen heads earlier, as it is much easier. | ||
| Matt Morgan (Kermit)
Junior Member Username: Kermit Post Number: 98 Registered: 8-2001 |
No JRV, have somebody show you one and you'll see they are easily done with the deck lid on. Just look down, and there they are! | ||
| Tom Jones (Ferrarioldman)
Junior Member Username: Ferrarioldman Post Number: 64 Registered: 6-2002 |
Like Mitchell I too use a nut driver but I had to cut down the shaft on mine some where the edge of the airhorn touches it. Works great. Whenever I have to take the air filter housing off I just remove the hood. For that 5 mins. of extra work there is less aggravation. | ||
| Hans E. Hansen (4re_gt4)
Member Username: 4re_gt4 Post Number: 741 Registered: 4-2002 |
I find that you can just loosen the nuts a number of turns (nearly off, actually), then slightly lift the airhorn and continue. I use a 1/4" drive socket with a screwdriver handle. Oh, BTW, on a 'GT4, all the nuts are easy to reach.  | ||
| JRV (Jrvall)
Member Username: Jrvall Post Number: 562 Registered: 11-2002 |
>>I replace them with allen head and use a Ball End allen driver.<< Must take some kinda micro-mini allen to get the front most ones under the hood edge when removing them with the deck lid on. | ||
| Matt Morgan (Kermit)
Junior Member Username: Kermit Post Number: 96 Registered: 8-2001 |
Steve, if youare refering to the bolts that clamp down the air horns to the carbs, I replace them with allen head and use a Ball End allen driver. | ||
| Mitchell Le (Yelcab1)
Member Username: Yelcab1 Post Number: 488 Registered: 11-2001 |
I went to Sears and bought an 8mm driver. It looks like a screw driver but with an 8mm fit at the end. It goes into the nuts a tiny bit crooked but it works. And do stuff some rags down the throats. Those damn 8mm nylon nuts are not attracted to magnets. | ||
| JRV (Jrvall)
Member Username: Jrvall Post Number: 557 Registered: 11-2002 |
I like modifying/making tools rather than modifying the car whenever possible. I grind down the extension side of a shallow socket and also take a box 8 wrench, heat and bend an angle in it. Then you have 2 neat Special Ferrari Tools. | ||
| Gerrit Visser (Gerritv)
Junior Member Username: Gerritv Post Number: 139 Registered: 6-2001 |
I have a very thin wall socket for this. The last few turns I do by finger power, the nylock is not gripping by then anyway. While taking these nuts off I always cover the airhorns with nylon socking material to avoid risk of dropping anything down the throat. The covers go on whenever the air filter top is off. | ||
| Steve (Steve)
Member Username: Steve Post Number: 279 Registered: 2-2001 |
Has anyone modified their carb. air horns so you can get a 1/4" drive socke to fit instead of taking off the nuts with a wrench or making a special socket. |