Steve,
I believe you are running too rich. Typical symptom. Or you have a leak
in your fuel bowl into the carb throttle body.
Thanks for the door hint. I have a similar driver side door closure,
and never thought about that black piece. I'll check it out.
Have you replaced the front or rear window guide rubber/felt? The rear,
as I recall, was a folded piece of cloth. If these do not fit properly,
it could be a cause of your window issue.
Steve Laifman
Steve Sage wrote:
> 1. The Tiger's passenger door suddenly would not fully close
> yesterday. I spent an hour trying to adjust the receiving (chrome)
> latch on the body various ways but nothing allowed the "pin" in the
> door itself (the vertical part that goes up and down when you move the
> door handle on the door or push the button on the outside door handle)
> to catch that second "rise" on the chrome latch on the car body.
> Comparing the door hardware on the drivers side that worked well, I
> noticed there's that little darker (almost black) horizontal piece in
> the door latch hardware at the bottom that slides in and out. It was
> frozen on the passenger side. I took the chrome assembly off of the
> passenger door and took it apart, WD40'd it and made sure that sliding
> part moved freely and re-installed the assembly. That was it and the
> door now closes perfectly. I still haven't quite figured out the
> function of that black sliding part (too much thinking needed?), but
> look for that if the same happens to your Tiger or Alpine.
>
> 2. Question: The passenger side window has gotten harder and harder
> to roll up and down. This seems to have happened since I had the door
> panels replaced but it has gradually become even worse since then. I
> have to roll it up a couple of inches, down an inch, up a couple more
> inches, etc. etc. to get it all the way open or closed. I know the
> panel will have to come off but are there any obvious things to look
> for when it does tonight? If I'm lucky, maybe it just needs some more
> WD40 or lube.
>
> Steve Sage
>
> PS: I'm still trying to track down the noxious exhaust smell that gets
> sucked into the car with either window partially down. From list
> suggestions I've already checked the lower tank hoses behind the
> bumper. All of those are on tight and dry. I temporarily extended the
> tail pipes out another 4 inches using some cardboard I wrapped around
> the real tips to see if getting them further out would change the
> dynamics back there. No luck. It still stinks just as bad. I'm going
> to change the upper crossover hose tonight, although what I have
> doesn't smell like raw fuel. One thing I have noticed is that the
> inside of the exhaust pipes is dark black and the exhaust coming out
> of them is pretty powerfully smelly. I'm thinking that a good deal of
> the problem may be just that the Holley carb jets are too rich so I'm
> going to try some smaller sizes to see if that helps without hurting
> performance.
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