evening All, finally got round to firing up the old beast (being in storage for about 4 months), fired up only after a few cranks once the fuel had drawn through, under no load, seemed to run ok but on a run it ran like a bag o ****e.
put some fresh fuel in it, but still backfired under load. eventually pulled over and did a few checks (checked for damp on dizzy cap, rotor arm, HT leads etc.). Upon checking the SU's noticed there was no oil in the dampers (So this will be topped up at next visit.....) but once I'd checked them the backfiring stopped on the way home but it did feel "gutless", its being like this before I put it away in storage, I remember last year in the winter when I was playing in the snow, it seemed to be "ok" when you floored it but when you pulled the choke out, it really picked up....drawing in air??
so a carb overhaul and tune up is probably long overdue. I've no problem in doing the overhaul of the SU's myself but wondered if anyone knew of anywhere that could do carb balancing on 4x4's (rolling road etc.??) near Bradford, west Yorkshire?
oh, one more thing, when I got it a few years ago the MOT man put it on the emissions test and "Hydrocarbons were thru the roof and an instant fail" (his words), luckily its a 1971 on the log book so he said "ah in that case it doesn't matter...."
cheers
p.s. sorry for any spelling mistakes am currently enjoying a nice red wine with Led Zepplin banging out
put some fresh fuel in it, but still backfired under load. eventually pulled over and did a few checks (checked for damp on dizzy cap, rotor arm, HT leads etc.). Upon checking the SU's noticed there was no oil in the dampers (So this will be topped up at next visit.....) but once I'd checked them the backfiring stopped on the way home but it did feel "gutless", its being like this before I put it away in storage, I remember last year in the winter when I was playing in the snow, it seemed to be "ok" when you floored it but when you pulled the choke out, it really picked up....drawing in air??
so a carb overhaul and tune up is probably long overdue. I've no problem in doing the overhaul of the SU's myself but wondered if anyone knew of anywhere that could do carb balancing on 4x4's (rolling road etc.??) near Bradford, west Yorkshire?
oh, one more thing, when I got it a few years ago the MOT man put it on the emissions test and "Hydrocarbons were thru the roof and an instant fail" (his words), luckily its a 1971 on the log book so he said "ah in that case it doesn't matter...."
cheers
p.s. sorry for any spelling mistakes am currently enjoying a nice red wine with Led Zepplin banging out