Sprint trhottle linkage

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Sprint trhottle linkage

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Do any of the Dolomite Sprints have a 1/2 - 5/8 inch alloy (looks like zinc-aluminium) spacer between the plate with the throttle linkage cam, etc., and the inlet manifold?

I've discovered I have such a spacer in a carb set-up using a TR7 linkage plate on a Sprint manifold, and I can't find where it came from. I'd always assumed it was off a TR7, but it seems that I may have been wrong about that.

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Here's a picture of it between the plate and manifold - the carbs are HS8's but I got them without a manifold or any part of the throttle linkage, so it's nothing to do with them as such.

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Re: Sprint trhottle linkage

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Carb spacing on the TR7 is wider than the Sprint, so if it is on the Sprint manifold it won't be a TR7 item.
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Sorry, don't know what happening with picture if it's not the Photobucket issue.
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This part isn't to do with the spaceing between the carbs, it's to do with how far back from the engine they and the linkage plate fit on the manifold. I haven't got one on either the Sprint or the TR7 carb sets I have, but I do have it on the hybrid set with the TR7 throttle linkage plate on the Sprint manifold.

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