Recent content by Georgie58

All's good now, not sure what sorted the problem as to many changes but what ever it was has been cured. Thanks to everyone for your advice and help

Just got around to working on the carbs again, fitted new none popet valve butterflies, spindles and seals also fitted new intake manifold gasket. Got to refit the sump before I can run her up.. Fingers crossed

Will have a go and see if things improve, may be a little while before I report back as waiting for some parts to come.

Hi Harvey, inthe Haynes manual it says to fit the butterfly and leave the screws slightly loose and operate the butterfly several times and then tighten the screws. On the HIF44s i have the butterfly retains the shaft, there is no fastening on the opposite end to the opperating leaver so I let...

I was uesing my phone to try and access it ...going to pinch the missus lap top and have another go when I can get it to run properly .....at the moment the l/hand carb is pulling loads of air with the stop backed right off

PS. I have read that the non popet butterflies as used on MGC and MGA Twin cam which were fitted with 1,3/4 SU's will fit the HIF44. I intend to purchase a pair and to eliminate the popet valve as a potential problem. Cheers George

Hi, i removed the carb and have checked the shaft and seals I cannot blow air into the carb past them. I centralized the butterfly when refitting however when fully closed if I hold the carb with the butterfly horizontal looking in at it from the engine side and spray WD40 around the edge it...

Many thanks for all the replies guy's, going to remove the carb and check on all the points raised......wish I was 40 years younger

There was no play in the butterfly spindles and I fitted the latest spec seals with the open side looking out (found a diagram that showed them fitted the other way around for turbo application's). Used a dab of grease when fitting all seals.

I am thinking its either needle / jet tube wear or choke assembly problem, cheers for the reply

I've not removed the butterflies and the fast idle screws are well clear of the choke cams. The butterflies are fitted with the poppet valves. I've checked the one one the carb I'm having problems with, manually operated it and rotated it, given it a spray of wd40 and as far as I can tell its...

I've just swopped to a set of Hif44s which were cleaned up, float hights, jet tube hights and throttle stops set as per lots of reasearch. The carbs were treated to all new seals and o'rings supplied in a genuine su kit. My problem trying to set a reasonable tick over prior to checking the...

Couldn't get mintylamb to work along with many others but got directed to www.teglerizer.com this is spot on you can put the needle code in and it gives you 16 diameters over the length of the needle

Hi can anyone tell me the difference between BGC, BBV, and BBG needles regards which run richer and where in the throttle range, cheers George