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Hi Tom There is no doubt that the car is running rich Forget the pop from the carb If you stand behind the car your eyes feel they are going to burn right out of your sockets! My friend who is working on the car and I spoke to Mike Pierce last night. He very quickly identified what we are doing wron...

I've not touched the original float level settings as we had pulled the tops off and found the fuel level satisfactory . Fuel is not overflowing into the intake manifold as can be seen from top of the carbs . Fuel is initially supplied with electric fuel pump . Once the car starts , I switch off the...

Checked the idle jets They have 60 stamped on them or 09 Depending on how you view it. Also checked the old unusable carbs They too had 60 or 09 jets Took the car up and down the yard a few times after putting in 15 litres of gasoline. The fuel got over - so ahe is guzzling. What do i do guys? Pleas...

So near yet so far away... Thank you for the advise - it has been invaluable! As described earlier there was no current flowing through three wires of the wires of the right hand bank. Thanks to all the detailed instructions you gave, the fault was quickly identified as a set of defective points. Ne...

Thank you Tom An update Removed the carbs and opened them. Changed the packing in between the top half And bottom half of the carbs Checked valves etc were clean Assembled back together Changed packing in between the carb and manifolds Used thicker bakelite. Also changed the o rings between engine a...

Hi Tom. If you recall i sent my set of carbs to Mike Pierce Who did an outstanding job of rebuilding them. When we started the engine we had a miss so we removed the carbs and sent them back to Mike for checking them out again. In the meantime gave the car for painting. Two things happened 1.The guy...

Need Help!!

carbs are not getting set .
When we turn the air screw there is hardly any
change in idle . Car keeps running rich .
What could be the fault?

This is what i see on the net and also
In the owners manual

However the owners manual and the pix i see
online seem to have the cups on the side in the firewall and connected with two pipes. Unable to load pix for
some reason.

Which ia correct?

However the owners manual and the pix i see
online seem to have this

On another topic

My car has a brake booster as per the pix below

Hi Timo

Haven’t got your PM

Some more info: All wires are getting a continous spark. On cold start everything is fine . After warm up , there is an intermittent misfire mainly from first carb and a little from second . Since it is not a continous misfire, the mechanic feels that due to new valve guides ,they maybe “catching” t...

Any suggestions on how to address this?

Thank you Mike and Happy Easter everyone. So today, Easter 2018 the car went for its first short drive In years. Just a very short distance coz it was only a trial And the brake pedal needs to be stood on to Make the car stop. Will be checking the brake booster during the coming week. She starts and...