I have my new clutch installed, plus a rebuilt starter and a rebuilt exhaust
system with flex pipe (thanks again Chuck). I have driven the car about 5 to
7 miles at a time since this. The weather has gotten into the mid 90's.
This is the first time I have driven it in this kind of heat. I have never
driven the car at 95 to 100 degrees Cent. as indicated on the water
temperature gage.
I have been laboring with the idle in Scarlet. I get everything set up so
that it starts nice, but it misses, backfires through the exhaust and stalls
as you come to a light after being driven a mile or so. I advance the
timing until it runs smooth and it will not start. I can also pull out the
choke a quarter of an inch, but it the idles at about 2000 RPM.
It did not dawn on me until this afternoon that all of the pictures in my
Brooklands book showed a distributor with a vacuum advance. Mine does not
have a vacuum advance. I looked up the distributor model in the book and it
says that it should have a Ford 25D4. I have a 23D4.
The questions are:
1. Does a Morgan distributor normally have a vacuum advance?
2. Could the car have jumped a notch on its timing chain?
3. Does this make any sense or would anything else account for this?
Thanks,
Steve Bauserman
67 Morgan 4/4 Series V Competition
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