[Roadsters] Still stumped

[Tim]

I had mentioned that I am running a GB EI dizzy (Gary Boone Electronic Dizzy) so no points or dwell. I have been running this set up for over two years with no problems until last week. A new coil was installed as part of this upgrade.

Tim


---- Bob Dicke <rtdengr at charter.net> wrote: 

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Tim,
Are you sure that it is a fuel problem and not ignition? If this car has stock ignition I'd start with Point Dwell, then condenser, then points, then coil. It would be cool if you could get the car on an ignition scope and see what's going on at high RPM.
Bob

---- Tim <tputland at charter.net> wrote:
When I last ran my Roadster, it was still not running right. I had set the timing,
re- balanced the carbs, and fixed the fuel mixture**. After this, it seemed to be running well pulling strong through all the gears with no ping or misses. Then, at about 75 or 80 mph, it started to do the hesitation/miss thing again it was doing last week (when I was about half way home from MidOhio -- I posted about this as you might remember). Based on what I had read, I figured it was running lean so I pulled off the road (a few times--this was last Sunday) and each during each stop slowly adjusted the knobs and ended up just under a quarter turn to richen the mixture. After the first and subsequent stops, it was again spitting/bucking/running rough; too rich now I assume. I went home, re-set the fuel mixture back to where it was above**. I was still not able to get the spitting and bucking to stop.

At this point it was getting too hot for me, both under the hood, in my head, as well as outside so I parked the car. This is where I am at and have not looked at the car since last Sunday.

When I had checked/"fixed" the timing last week while in Indiana, I do not think I had done it right: The timing light I was lent was of the fancy variety with a setting knob that I must have not used correctly. When I used my light at home, the timing was up over 30 degrees of advance. I am now set at 16 degrees on a de-smogged 70 1600 running a GB EI dizzy.

Any thoughts please.

Thanks

tim