But.. but.. I've set everything up just as it's supposed to be.. it should
work..
Ok, so if I move the plug wires around by two places then I have essentially
spun the distributor around by 180 degrees.. sounds easy enough..
Oh yeah, I was thinking about the carbs, as I have verified that the pistons
move easily up and down and at about the same rate and the needles are mounted
correctly then as long as I have no air leaks due to gaskets/seals the only
thing left to verify is that fuel flows through the jets as I have already
verified fuel height in the bowl and fuel flow through the needle and seat.
Hmm.. I just thought of something else.. there doesn't seem to be a vent on
top of the float chamber but that may just be my memory..
Lester
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:07 PM, bmwwxman . <bmwwxman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What Mike said..... I've seen this happen before too. On my MKIII
>> Midget I have to rotate the dizzy 180 degrees from where it *should* be.
>> You could try that too. I've known a number of different 4 bangers where
>> the dizzy was 180 degrees out.
>>
>> Cheers!!
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Mike Rambour <lists@dinospider.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 40 years ago when I was a stupid teenager who knew it all, I spent 2
>>> days trying to get a engine to fire, it kept spitting back through the
>>> carbs and not running. On the second day I was going through everything
>>> and checking valve clearances...Following the firing order 1,3,4,2 then
>>> my girlfriend said "if 3 comes after 1, why did 4 intake valve open ?" or
>>> something like that. 40 years and I still hear about it from her
(married
>>> 36 years now).
>>>
>>> Some idiot has put in a new cam that had a different firing order,
>>> 1,2,4,3 is what the cam was, I have no idea where that cam came from it
>>> was in the boxes with the block and other motor parts when I bought the
>>> basket case and I never checked it just assumed it was right. So check
>>> your firing order ! take off the valve cover, set motor at TDC and
double
>>> check valve timing, then rotate motor watching both valves and rotor on
>>> distributor (I think you said it was electronic so oops if it is). This
>>> will take 5 minutes to do and eliminate a 1,000 possible things wrong and
>>> you will now be able to diagnose from a known starting point. And keep
>>> your gf away or she might fix it and remind you for decades.
>>>
>>> I personally can't imagine how a carb could cause backfiring through the
>>> carbs unless you forgot to put parts in or like that. So for fire to get
to
>>> the carb it has to be valve timing is way off or ignition timing is way
>>> off. Yeah, I suppose really really bad valve clearances could cause the
>>> symptoms you are seeing but that would be the last thing I would check.
>>>
>>> Mike
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