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Question about this 200 1985

posted by  neptune242 on  Thu Oct 24 14:52 CST 2002
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I don't have a picture of it offhand, but the adjustment you're looking for is a small hole exactly between the black ribbed rubber hood over the metering plate and the fuel distributor itself. That whole assembly sits on top of your airbox in the very front passenger side of the engine bay. You may have to press out a ball bearing or plastic plug that currently is filling the hole, you'll have to pop that whole top off as if you were going to replace the air filter, then push it out from the bottom.
A very long allen key is helpful, sorry I don't remember the size off hand. 3mm is a guess, sounds right for some reason. Clockwise is richer and anti-clockwise leans it out.
I've heard never to rev up the car when you have the allen key in the adjustment, but this is the first I've heard about not doing with the engine even running. But then my K-Jet system is not the world's happiest camper right now. Never has been actually.
The Bentley manual has a sequence for adjusting it properly with a dwell meter, that might come in useful. I couldn't get it to work on mine though, but my car is in pretty bad shape.
Good luck. If you get yours fixed early you're welcome to come over and spend some quality time with my FI.
No seriously, good luck.
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1981 242GLTi 1967.5 122S Automatic (Project)






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