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1. Re: 77B won't start (score: 1): Author: Tom McLaughlin <tmcl98@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:01:17 -0800 (PST); Still stuck. While working on this I found that the hose below the choke was leaking so I had to replace that. Also, while looking at the no start problem, I saw that the throttle cable was adjusted; /html/mgs/2003-12/msg00106.html (10,623 bytes)
2. Re: 77B won't start (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt $T$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:47:25 -0000; If the pump still clicked when the fuel pipe to the carbs was blocked off, and you have an SU pump, then either the non-return valves in the pump are faulty (possibly dirty fuel which could affect th; /html/mgs/2003-12/msg00129.html (7,998 bytes)
3. 77B won't start (score: 1): Author: Tom McLaughlin <tmcl98@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:07:39 -0700 (PDT); Because of a newborn in June, I've put woefully few miles on my B this driving season. Now it won't start. Here are the symptoms. Started and ran fine the 30 or so times I've driven it this year. Ha; /html/mgs/2003-10/msg00469.html (7,938 bytes)
4. RE: 77B won't start (score: 1): Author: "Lew Palmer" <lpalmer@roundaboutmanor.com>; Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:30:52 -0500; Could the seal around the pump be bad? What seal do you mean? The 77 uses a rubber ring around the pump, but that is only to hold it in the boot. Could the pump be bad? (even though I hear the click; /html/mgs/2003-10/msg00472.html (7,096 bytes)
5. Re: 77B won't start (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:54:45 -0700; Does it have any gas in it? Or, conceivably, is the flex hose from the tank to the pump intact? -- Max Heim '66 MGB GHN3L76149 If you're near Mountain View, CA, it's the primer red one with chrome wi; /html/mgs/2003-10/msg00473.html (6,965 bytes)
6. RE: 77B won't start (score: 1): Author: Tom McLaughlin <tmcl98@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:09:19 -0700 (PDT); Looking in my book, I was looking at the fuel sender when I was talking about the "seal", not the pump. There is no gas leaking from the fuel line or from the pump that I can see. There is a little g; /html/mgs/2003-10/msg00474.html (7,996 bytes)
7. Re: 77B won't start (score: 1): Author: "Telewest $PH$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:49:13 +0100; For the continual clicking clamp off the rubber hose to the carb. If that stops it the float valve is leaking, if not then either the non-return valves in the pump are faulty or it isn't an SU pump.; /html/mgs/2003-10/msg00486.html (8,431 bytes)
8. 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: Visual Productions <visprod@whc.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 01:18:46 MDT; My recently-purchased '77B has become quite a headache. I wouldn't try so hard to keep the thing on the road if it didn't look so good. Here's the progression of events: A few weeks ago the car start; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00162.html (8,281 bytes)
9. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: David Simpson <davids@cybergate.com>; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 01:32:08 -0700 (PDT); Brian, Flames coming out of the carb can be caused by EXTREMELY offset ignition timing, or something like plug wires being connected to the wrong cylinders. The cylinder fires while the intake valve; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00164.html (9,384 bytes)
10. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: Alan Tong <alan@picotech.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:36:45 GMT; Two likely causes for your problem...... 1. I assume that you have checked the timing, if it is way out then the combustion may be occuring when the inlet valve is open (causing the flames out the c; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00166.html (9,171 bytes)
11. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: "Roger Garnett" <rwg1@cornell.edu>; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 10:01:57 -5000; Always start at the beggining, and check all the tune up settings: -Adjust the valves (If they're way off, they could cause this. -check all vacuum lines and other hoses. Replace if cracking. -Replac; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00170.html (8,451 bytes)
12. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: hovisa@nando.net (Allan R. Hovis); Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 10:47:56 -0400; Shouldn't keep it from running but make sure you replace the spark plug wires. The misfire under load sounds like bad wires for sure. Allan Hovis; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00172.html (8,922 bytes)
13. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: JAMES <JBMYERS@msuvx2.memphis.edu>; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 12:03:17 -0500 (CDT); Sounds like timing, but as Roger (?) said, start at the beginning: valves, Also, it seems strange that the car was running OK _before_ the smog test, and the problems started _after_ the test. It may; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00178.html (8,333 bytes)
14. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: "Christopher W. Reichle" <Christopher.W.Reichle@students.Miami.EDU>; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:55:18 -0400 (EDT); Sounds bad... Do a compression check and a vacuum test. It sounds like you may have a valve train problem. I would guess that you will have low compression and your vacuum test will show regular spik; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00179.html (9,407 bytes)
15. Re[2]: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: SCHLINING.M.W-_at_BALT.PO.017@smtpgty.bwi.wec.com; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 16:26:57 EST; This thread has been going for awhile, but first look at the most simple thing you can that could cause this type of failure. The distributor is the most likely to cause this out of phase condition.; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00184.html (10,258 bytes)
16. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 18:05:03 -0400 (EDT); Does your breakerless ignition system (I do prefer the description "pointless" ignition system) have a capacitor? Because the above could be produced by a deteriorating capacitor. The backfiring and; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00188.html (8,836 bytes)
17. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: David Simpson <davids@cybergate.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 09:42:41 -0700 (PDT); I had my 77B in for smog one time, and it was taking forever, so I looked over the shoulder of the kid doing the check; he had the timing/dwell lead connected to the GROUND lug inside the distributo; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00211.html (9,120 bytes)
18. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe); Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 13:15:50 PDT; Does your wife know she gets last billing after a MINIVAN?!? I always hang around when my car is being smogged if for no other reason than to tell the mechanic to stop leaning on my aluminum hood (b; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00216.html (10,251 bytes)
19. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1): Author: DamitDick@megaweb.com (W. J. Richard Criswell); Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 19:32:57; Denise... Hear hear! I'm so disgusted with CA Smog regulations that I'm considering running my '80 MGB desmoged until I take it in once every two years. Then I will invest the hour or so that it tak; /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00296.html (8,128 bytes)

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