dotMorse
Club Member
Afternoon all.
I took my car to a rolling road and they picked up that the mechanical advance was not working. At this point the car lacked power but ran fine, just quite rich. (Did a 60 mile round trip with no problems)
When I got back I disassembled the distributor and found the cam lobes were stuck solid. Pulled them apart and cleaned them up. Now work as the should. I reassembled the distributor and also noticed my timing on the oil pump shaft was out a tooth so I also corrected that. Now get the 11.25 orientation. (Previously I had to crack the distributor fully in one director to get 10degrees advance)
I reassembled everything and checked the timing using a test light and verified the rotor was pointing at ignition lead to cylinder 1. This was set to 10 degrees BTDC and with a wiggle on the rotor the light goes off and on.
But it now doesn’t start.
Since then I have checked:
I am getting spark as I have checked all plugs with a spark plug tester
I am getting fuel as some of the spark plugs when I pulled them as wet from flooding the engine I guess. They smell of fuel.
I cranked the engine for 10sec at full throttle to try and clear the fuel build up
I have checked the points gap at 0.50mm at the peak of the cam (running manual points)
I have fullly charged the battery
I have tried with choke
I have tried with and without air filter
I have checked TDC with a piston stop
I have cleaned and rebuilt both carbs and reset to 2 turns on the mixture screw
What am I missing? It does not even almost fire at any point. Occasionally I get a back spray of compressed fuel out of the carbs.
Run out of ideas now. Any help?
I took my car to a rolling road and they picked up that the mechanical advance was not working. At this point the car lacked power but ran fine, just quite rich. (Did a 60 mile round trip with no problems)
When I got back I disassembled the distributor and found the cam lobes were stuck solid. Pulled them apart and cleaned them up. Now work as the should. I reassembled the distributor and also noticed my timing on the oil pump shaft was out a tooth so I also corrected that. Now get the 11.25 orientation. (Previously I had to crack the distributor fully in one director to get 10degrees advance)
I reassembled everything and checked the timing using a test light and verified the rotor was pointing at ignition lead to cylinder 1. This was set to 10 degrees BTDC and with a wiggle on the rotor the light goes off and on.
But it now doesn’t start.
Since then I have checked:
I am getting spark as I have checked all plugs with a spark plug tester
I am getting fuel as some of the spark plugs when I pulled them as wet from flooding the engine I guess. They smell of fuel.
I cranked the engine for 10sec at full throttle to try and clear the fuel build up
I have checked the points gap at 0.50mm at the peak of the cam (running manual points)
I have fullly charged the battery
I have tried with choke
I have tried with and without air filter
I have checked TDC with a piston stop
I have cleaned and rebuilt both carbs and reset to 2 turns on the mixture screw
What am I missing? It does not even almost fire at any point. Occasionally I get a back spray of compressed fuel out of the carbs.
Run out of ideas now. Any help?