On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, Visual Productions wrote:
> My recently-purchased '77B has become quite a headache. I wouldn't
> A few weeks ago the car started to run rough. It would occasionally
> misfire or suffer a loss of power when I would accelerate to highway
> speeds or to climb hills. This happened, by the way, the day after it
> passed Texas' safety & emissions inspection for the first time.
>
> The misfire and loss of power turned to horrible backfiring and
> sometimes flames out of the carb.
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.
> a Weber Carb, and, a recent discovery, a contactless electronic
> ignition system.
>
> A strange happening: occasionally the carb spits fuel out of the air
> intake as the engine is being cranked.
>
> Any thoughts?
The backfiring and refusal to start are consistent with a timing chain
that has jumped a tooth or two or three.
>
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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