Sounds like your distributor could be 180 degrees out or perhaps the
vacuum advance is not functioning properly. Smooth idle & no power at
speed sounds like an ignition advance problem. The fact that you have no
timing light also seems to point to this. You need to get one. When you
check the timing, if you cannot even see the timing marks, you'll know
it's 180 degrees out. After you get it within a few degrees of TDC then
you can check for proper function of the advance.
CNA
e_holm@c2i.net writes:
>What happends if the valve gap is too tight?
>I just changed the engine to a rebuilt one incl the rebuilt top on my SV
>(1725cc), however I can't get it run properly. At idling speed everything
>seems fine, but as soon as I start driving it seems pulling the
>accellerator
>pedal it seems like the engine is choked in some way and there is really
>no
>spirit. And after another few minutes, especially when climbing hills the
>car
>seems to choke even more, and then then one or two cylindars does not
>seem to
>work and everything is really slow and sounds bad. I just have to stop
>for a
>few minutes then I can go on again for another few - quite annoying! Could
>this be the valve gaps are too tight? I know they should be 0,35 and
>0,30 mm,
>however I haven't been able to chech that properly. I also wonder if it
>could
>be something with the ignition things, I have just tuned that by hand eg.
>no
>stroboscope or anything.
>Temperature seems to be allright, oil pressure also.
>Or what else could this be?
>Hope there is some good advice out there!
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