"the worst was a 67 MGB BT"
GT? --Wow, that brought back memories. Mine dieseled like a train too. -But
I knew next to nothing about how to set it up back then. God, I loved that
car. --It was so solid. ---I had put (sic) alloy "wire" wheels on it, and big
fat gummy tires. It was like driving a real life "Hot Wheels" car !
----and wow, could you four wheel drift one of those. (Man, was I lucky to
survive my twenties!).
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Lemon
To: BJ8Healeys ; healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Dieseling
The one thing I would add about dieseling is that although I have not had a
BJ8, I do have a BN1, and have had Sprites, MGs and Triumphs in the past,
they have all dieseled to a greater or lesser extent, the worst was a 67 MGB
BT that would literally keep runing after the ignition was turned off (never
figured out how long, after a cetain amount of time had to kill it out of
respect for the machinery).
Won't disagree with what Stave and others have stated so far, will add that
it is hard to set an idle speed, especially if you live in the highly
variable climate of the midwest, where a car thit burbles happily at 900 RPM
on a 65 degree day will lope and sputter at 500 when it is 98 in traffic.
So you tend to set a little high to allow for this, or at least I do, which
of course can lead to more dieseling.
Its all somewhat of a compromise of course healthy engine and carbs and
everything to spec helps (except the high compression on the healthy
engine.
My long winded way of saying I have gotten in the habbit of killing the
motor with the clutch.
Greg Lemon
54 BN1
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