Just another rant about the carbies, seems difficult to tighten the rear nuts on the carbies ,do you use a grind down spanner ? 9/16 af
Allen

I just use an open end spanner if the studs are too long. But I also remove the entire manifold with the carbies. I dont remove or replace the carbies with the manifold still fitted to the engine.

That's been my experience too. I think it's just 'mini: if you can see it, you can't touch it; if you can touch it you can't see it". Many modern spanners are very long and getting caught up on all the springs and cables is usual. I have to keep turning the open ended spanner over to get just 1/2 a flat at a time.

Admittedly I only have a single carb, but I bought Sumer stubby ROE from Supercheap just for working on the mini.
Surprising how much easier things are with them.

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I think the original nuts were not as thick as a normal nut .

I filed down some stainless nuts to fit my 1-1/2" twins .

Are you able to point me to what you are referring to here?

Go to Bunnings and buy a cheap short ring open ender spanner for $1 and cut the ring end off to make your own stubby.
IIRC the nuts are 5/8" AF.
Edit: Just checked and the nuts are 9/16" AF.

RonR

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The nut size on my carbies is 9/16 AF which means Across the Flats. Not the dia of the stud. I will check if there were smaller nuts used they would have to be 1/2 AF. You cant change the stud dia as you know. Pain to fit.
Allen

Nuts are 3/8 UNF, 9/16 AF and around 5mm thick. Photo shows a cheap 1/2 cut open ended spanner that I've used for years. The carby set shown are from a Mini (jigsaw puzzle) I bought last year. Could not find the proper nuts so I machined down some thicker 3/8 UNF nuts to make them easier to fit.

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These ones.
http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/Produc ... ece/342530

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The nuts used on HS2 (1 1/4) carbs, as said above, are 3/8inch diameter (of the stud) UNF thread and use a 9/16inchAF spanner. I think they are called "half nuts" or "lock nuts". See minispares comment:

http://www.minispares.com/product/Class ... 0to%20shop

The HS4 carbs use smaller 5/16inch studs that use 1/2 inch AF spanners. These nuts are full sized.

good info

Well, I would never have found them from the previous description!

I love the price. I have them mind for other little jobs too.

Lower rad bracket bolts, clutch cover, lower engine mounts...

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Stubby spanners can be very handy. The amount of spanners in ones toolbox though:
stubby, standard, long ring & open, ratcheting, offset ring, long ring ring. Goes on and on...

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