Hello all,
While running my TR6 this afternoon, I discovered the back carb is not
working at all, therefore starving cylinders 4, 5 and 6 for fuel. In
fact, when those three plug wires were disconnected, the car ran the
same (and pretty damn well--go figure!)
Anyway, when I reached over the engine, I put my hand on the dashpot of
the front carb--it was HOT!!!!!!!!! Not hot like a motor gets, but hot
like an exhaust manifold gets. The back carb was warm, but not like the
front. I pulled the valve cover to see if maybe an exhaust valve was
stuck closed, thereby forcing hot air back through the intake, but it
did not seem so. Any ideas?
I plan to pull the back carb and rebuild it tomorrow to see if that
solves the TR3-out-of-6 (cylinders) problem, then will rebuild the
front. But what could cause the carb to get hot? After I revved the
engine for a while, it seemed to cool back down (at least to the point
where I could touch it.)
Thanks for any help you may be able to give.
Harris
'59 Bugeye Sprite (mad that it's battery is in the TR)
'72 TR6 (3 out of 6 ain't bad after being dead for 10 years...)
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