Still working with the B today. Solve some erratic timing problems
by stripping, cleaning, and reassembling the distributor. Much better
now.
After all the tuning, the car drives like a champ. Accelerates
well, sounds smooth right up to redline, etc.
However, I think it's still running rich even though I've leaned
the jets about 8 flats back of the original "12 flats" setting.
Is this absurd? Is something very wrong? I guess I can keep leaning
it off with the adjusters until it behaves, but I think the top of
the jet is going to be level with the jet bearing before I am
done. The car came to me with the jet up that high, perhaps that
was for a reason.
Is there something I am not thinking of that could be making
me run so rich?
The main symptom is that the car is VERY hard to start when warm
sometimes, it floods almost instantly. If I have another person I
can lift the carb push pins with my hands and have them start the
car and it will come to life after a few seconds of very rough
groggy idling.
As well, the plugs are usually dry and sooty, classic "rich" look
to them. The exhaust sounds also sounds a bit rich but it's hard to
tell with a car that I haven't really used much.
Is there something wrong with just leaning the jet adjusters until
it seems better, even if this means the jets are as high as the
jet bearings? Would this cause any problems?
Ideas?
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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