codekiddie
Active Member
The car has been running fine recently, except that she has exhibited the dreaded vapour lock symptoms of not wanting to run as sweetly when re-started after stopping for a while. She has never really had any issues like this before, has an electric pump fitted with all pipes and hoses wrapped in some heat resistant tape.
The other evening she was really bad after stopping for 20 minutes or so, and I only just made it home again. being rather late I only took a cursory glance under the bonnet at all the usual things, points, rotor arm coil etc... and it was whilst I was looking over the coil that the LT wire from the dizzy pulled off its connector. AHA! I thought. Found the culprit.
The next day I decided to completely replace the wire from the dizzy to the coil, both ends soldered and crimped, and a quick start of the engine to confirm I had a good connection. She started as she always has:- on the button. Before taking her for a drive, the new fuel filter I had ordered arrived, so I decided to fit that as well.
Unfortunately after fitting the filter and starting her, she was like a bucket of bolts and could hardly hold her own just ticking over
So, in a bid to find out the problem I reversed my steps, and I re-fitted the old fuel filter but with no change :x
By coincidence has something else gone wrong whilst I was doing a fairly simply job on her??? Surely not!!!
So, in a bid to find out what is going on I removed the throttle linkage between the two carbs, and the left, (offside), carb is fine if you increase the throttle, but the other side sounded asthmatic, and really didn't like it.
I cleaned all of the plugs, which although were very sooty, made no change to things.
Since only one half of the cylinders seems affected, I assumed that the dizzy, coil, and anything else common to all cylinders surely cannot be at fault. I removed the carb from the poorly side, and one of the gaskets showed traces of fuel having been leaking, so I made a new gasket, and re-fitted the carb, thinking that I MUST have found the issue, but no
There is no mention in the WM of any priming of the fuel required after changing the filter, and I guess the fuel pump and the float chambers should take care of that. Just very odd that this has started since I changed the filter:- very infuriating.
I have AUD623's carbs fitted. Out of interest, where is the mixture control on the carbs, since I had such sooty plugs, I thought it may need adjusting. I will not be changing anything yet, as I don't want to introduce more variables, but a job for another day.
I am meant to be going to the Enfield Pageant on Sunday, so any help gratefully accepted, as at the moment she is going nowhere :shock:
The other evening she was really bad after stopping for 20 minutes or so, and I only just made it home again. being rather late I only took a cursory glance under the bonnet at all the usual things, points, rotor arm coil etc... and it was whilst I was looking over the coil that the LT wire from the dizzy pulled off its connector. AHA! I thought. Found the culprit.
The next day I decided to completely replace the wire from the dizzy to the coil, both ends soldered and crimped, and a quick start of the engine to confirm I had a good connection. She started as she always has:- on the button. Before taking her for a drive, the new fuel filter I had ordered arrived, so I decided to fit that as well.
Unfortunately after fitting the filter and starting her, she was like a bucket of bolts and could hardly hold her own just ticking over
So, in a bid to find out the problem I reversed my steps, and I re-fitted the old fuel filter but with no change :x
By coincidence has something else gone wrong whilst I was doing a fairly simply job on her??? Surely not!!!
So, in a bid to find out what is going on I removed the throttle linkage between the two carbs, and the left, (offside), carb is fine if you increase the throttle, but the other side sounded asthmatic, and really didn't like it.
I cleaned all of the plugs, which although were very sooty, made no change to things.
Since only one half of the cylinders seems affected, I assumed that the dizzy, coil, and anything else common to all cylinders surely cannot be at fault. I removed the carb from the poorly side, and one of the gaskets showed traces of fuel having been leaking, so I made a new gasket, and re-fitted the carb, thinking that I MUST have found the issue, but no
There is no mention in the WM of any priming of the fuel required after changing the filter, and I guess the fuel pump and the float chambers should take care of that. Just very odd that this has started since I changed the filter:- very infuriating.
I have AUD623's carbs fitted. Out of interest, where is the mixture control on the carbs, since I had such sooty plugs, I thought it may need adjusting. I will not be changing anything yet, as I don't want to introduce more variables, but a job for another day.
I am meant to be going to the Enfield Pageant on Sunday, so any help gratefully accepted, as at the moment she is going nowhere :shock: