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Old September 18th, 2004, 06:33 PM   #1
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Accufab throttle bodies - if you have them, read this
So I was wondering why the right side of the motor was sounding funny... turns out that HALF of one screw in one of the throttle plates on my accufab throttle bodies came out and got sucked into the #10 cylinder. Accufab has been _extremely_ cooperative and even offered to replace the damaged piston [if necessary]. They also said this was an extremely rare, but _known_ occurance.

So if you have them, check them once in a while just in case. Mine are 2 years old...

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Re: Accufab throttle bodies - if you have them, read this
Someone with a Roe blower had the same experience shortly after the blowers came out--the blower rotors didn't like the throttle body screw either. I don't know whether Accufab paid for the damage or not.
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Re: Accufab throttle bodies - if you have them, read this
If you have them and this is a known problem, Put some loctite on them NOW!
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Old September 19th, 2004, 07:40 AM   #4
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Re: Accufab throttle bodies - if you have them, read this
JD; how long has that "sound" been going on?
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Old September 19th, 2004, 08:23 AM   #5
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Not very long... I'm 99% certain it started in shreveport...

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Re: Accufab throttle bodies - if you have them, read this
Loctite and stake them if possible, at least center-punch the threads so they can't back-out all the way!
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Re: Accufab throttle bodies - if you have them, read this
Wow! I wondered what the problem was out there. Forgot to ask. Good to know you're getting it resolved!
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Re: Accufab throttle bodies - if you have them, read this
Accufab is being quite good about this. Spoke to them today. they have offered to pay for the repair of the damaged cyl head. I'm just waiting to get that quote over to them. Apparently, they've seen this before...

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Re: Accufab throttle bodies - if you have them, read this
Dayum, they must sell a lot of these throttle bodies to cover cylinder head repairs on a Viper [img]/images/graemlins/laughing.gif[/img]
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Wow, that's really scary! MAJOR points to Accufab for being so cooperative and offering to pay to repair damages, they could easily have given you the run around (seems more and more companies tend to do this lately).
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I'll keep y'all posted. When I spoke to them earlier tonight, they were going to look at the head estimate. Now the machine shop is coming back to me telling me that the piston may be out of spec. If that is the case, I'll need ROSS to make me 4 new ones (they won't do just one). And in that case, I'm screwed for a while...

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Accufab is being quite good about this. Spoke to them today. they have offered to pay for the repair of the damaged cyl head. I'm just waiting to get that quote over to them. Apparently, they've seen this before...

JD

That's fucked up!! So if I read this thread as posted, Accufab is aware of this "possible" issue, yet they are not using Locktite and staking their own screws??? WTF?

It must be less expensive for Accufab to perform these two simple steps than have to pay for head work on a few Vipers.
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