Sounds like:
Twin SU's right? Pull the choke out recently?
Make sure that the needle seat are up. They could be stuck down even though
the choke knob is pushed in.
It would make you run real rich. Just reach under the carb and push up with
your finger.
Or you've:
1. Got a bad Vacuum leak.
2. Blown the head gasket.
3. Did the Distributor pop up and rotate some?
-----Original Message-----
From: Toby Atwater [mailto:tob@taltec.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 9:43 PM
To: Sprite Mailing List
Subject: more sprite problems
a full half week passed with no probs... until now... any help is
appreciated... I'm really lost..
The sprite does run, but it sounds like a VW beetle (miss firing?) and seems
to really lack power under 4000 rpm. Once I get it up into the higher revs,
it run just like it did... just fine... I also get blue smoke when
accelerating in 1st and 2nd and less in 3rd gear. The new spark plugs are
fowled and I just replaced them... little or no change in symptoms... what
could this be? and the symptoms just showed up overnight (literally). all
the spark plugs were all equally fowled, next I'm going to run a compression
check... but its very strange. any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated....
thanks
Toby Atwater
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