diff --git a/dive_sailthru_client/client.py b/dive_sailthru_client/client.py
index 30ca13f..3f13ea4 100644
--- a/dive_sailthru_client/client.py
+++ b/dive_sailthru_client/client.py
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-from sailthru.sailthru_client import SailthruClient
+from sailthru import sailthru_client
 from errors import SailthruApiError
 # We need the SailthruClientError to be able to handle retries in api_get
 from sailthru.sailthru_error import SailthruClientError
-
+# for patched_sailthru_http_request
+from sailthru.sailthru_response import SailthruResponse
+from sailthru.sailthru_http import flatten_nested_hash
+import requests
+import platform
+# other libraries
 import datetime
 import time
 import re
@@ -24,7 +29,40 @@ class DiveEmailTypes:
     Spotlight = "spotlight"
 
 
-class DiveSailthruClient(SailthruClient):
+# There is some skullduggery below in order to override the hardcoded 10 second timeout on HTTP requests
+# per TECH-3849. First we copy/paste the sailthru_http_request() function that originally exists here:
+# https://github.com/sailthru/sailthru-python-client/blob/521fdaa30890a29da8fbb02726e7d22ed174b878/sailthru/sailthru_http.py#L30
+# Then we modify it to have a default timeout of 60 seconds and additionally to accept a timeout parameter
+def timeout_patched_sailthru_http_request(url, data, method, file_data=None, timeout=60):
+    """
+    Perform an HTTP GET / POST / DELETE request
+
+    This is a override of upstream sailthru_http_request with `timeout` added as a parameter and
+    with the default set to 60 instead of 10.
+    """
+    data = flatten_nested_hash(data)
+    method = method.upper()
+    params, data = (None, data) if method == 'POST' else (data, None)
+
+    try:
+        headers = {'User-Agent': 'Sailthru API Python Client %s; Python Version: %s' % ('2.3.3-patched', platform.python_version())}
+        response = requests.request(method, url, params=params, data=data, files=file_data, headers=headers, timeout=timeout)
+        return SailthruResponse(response)
+    except requests.HTTPError as e:
+        raise SailthruClientError(str(e))
+    except requests.RequestException as e:
+        raise SailthruClientError(str(e))
+
+
+# Now we need to patch the altered sailthru_http_request into a place where even functions defined in the upstream
+# SailthruClient class that call it will call our new altered version. In the upstream class, the sailthru_http_request()
+# function is `import`ed into the sailthru_client module (not the class), so we need to import the sailthru_client module
+# and then redefine the sailthru_http_request that it had imported to instead point to our version. Then later we
+# have to make sure we are subclassing SailthruClient by refering to it specifically as sailthru_client.SailthruClient
+sailthru_client.sailthru_http_request = timeout_patched_sailthru_http_request
+
+
+class DiveSailthruClient(sailthru_client.SailthruClient):  # must import from sailthru_client.SailthruClient for patched HTTP timeout
     """
     Our Sailthru client implementation that adds our own concepts.
 
diff --git a/dive_sailthru_client/tests/test_integration.py b/dive_sailthru_client/tests/test_integration.py
index 3ece272..3ec41de 100644
--- a/dive_sailthru_client/tests/test_integration.py
+++ b/dive_sailthru_client/tests/test_integration.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import datetime
 import tempfile
 import StringIO
+import time
 
 
 @attr('external')
@@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ def test_get_set_var(self):
         value = self._get_user_var(self.test_email, self.test_var_key)
         self.assertNotEqual(value, new_value)
         self._set_user_var(self.test_email, self.test_var_key, new_value)
+        # We take a brief pause here to let Sailthru catch up. Sailthru API calls
+        # are only *eventually* consistent so sometimes you write a value and then
+        # read it back and still get the old value.
+        time.sleep(1)
         value = self._get_user_var(self.test_email, self.test_var_key)
         self.assertEqual(value, new_value)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ee667d1..cf4f866 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="dive_sailthru_client",
-    version="0.0.15",
+    version="0.0.16",
     description="Industry Dive abstraction of the Sailthru API client",
     author='Industry Dive',
     author_email='tech.team@industrydive.com',
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 519dbce..6af7d9f 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 [flake8]
-max-line-length = 128
+max-line-length = 140
 max-complexity = 12
 statistics = True