Monte,
Not having the exhaust hooked up means you have no scavangeing (sp?) and may
account for the smoke.
Regarding the black plug, is it a dry sooty black? If so your rich. Check
all the plugs for color and report back.
If you haven't messed with the dizzy and the plug color was OK with the ZS,
.035 should still be OK.
Mike
'79B
----- Original Message -----
From: "MonteMorris" <mmorris@nemr.net>
To: "MG list" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:53 PM
Subject: plug gap
> I now have the HIF's out of the 74 parts car installed in the 79B. I have
> not hooked up the exhaust pipe to the manifold yet; just in case I need to
> remove everything again. It starts and runs pretty well considering I
> haven't touched the carb settings after the rebuild, but there seems to be
> an excess of smoke coming from the manifold/carb area. In fact after I
shut
> it off a steady stream of smoke comes out of the front carb for a minute
or
> so. Does the manifold gasket smoke quite a bit until it gets the "new"
burnt
> off?
> I haven't run it over 3-4 minutes total yet-just enough that the temp
gauge
> came off of cold, since I drained the coolant and am in the process of
> refilling it.
> I think the manifold is on tight. Could the smoke be due to the plug gap?
I
> still have them gapped at .035, should I now change this to .025? I pulled
> one spark plug and it was pretty black.
> Thanks,
> Monte
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