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Carbonated please 140-160

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posted by  MacIsaac on  Mon Aug 9 14:23 CST 2004
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Well, I certainly am understanding more and more why we all love these cars. It is so satisfying to see a machine making sense.

The latest chapter in the saga of getting my yellow beast to purr smoothly happened this evening. After redoing the choke o-rings etc., and putting the timing to 10 degrees BTDC, and getting the mixture and idle just about right, for some reason I had a bad ping, even on level ground when accelerating mildly. So after some searching through the forums, I was able to connec the ping with the dieselling which has been going on, and come up with the answer: Carbon!

So I just used two bottles of decarboniser, one for each carb, took it out for a hearty run, and voila I have almost no ping and the dieselling seems to be cured. What a lot of white smoke coming out the exhaust. Whoo boy! Anyway, it could probably stand another two bottles.

Isn't it nice when things just make sense.

Now if I could only figure out why every morning it catches then stops, then takes 15 seconds of turning over to catch again, I would be a very happy man. I don't think it is fuel leaking out of the fuel line overnight. Any suggestions?

Greg






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