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Re: TR6 engine confusion. Help! :-)

To: sol <british-cars@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: TR6 engine confusion. Help! :-)
From: Randy Wilson <randy@taylor.wyvern.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 22:36:39 -0500 (EST)
> 
> - Although there appear to be two flared vacuum connections on the 
>distributor,
>   one on either side, in the diagram, I only see one, on the aft side.
> 

I can not tell you which years had both an advance and a retard can, and which
years had just the retard. Your description is right for a retard only system.

> - I can't find the little post on the carb that the vacuum line is supposed 
>to    go onto.
> 
> - In fact, the only place that such a post could fit is a small gunked up hole
>   on the part of the carb that attaches to the block...on the rear carb.  The
>   TRF diagram shows such a post on the FRONT carb.

It should be on the mounting flange, front carb, on the *bottom*. If your car
also had an advance, it would go to a fitting on the top.

> Would essentially not having a vacuum system contribute to the woes that I 
> mentioned above?  Did an unknown PO screw me over? And, lastly, am I going to 
> have to yank the carbs and switch them in order to get this to work?
> Thanks for any and all help and even laughter. :-)  

The lack of advance/retard would not cause your symptoms, but a disconnected
vacuum line would. What you described is the classic symptoms of running 
lean, a vacuum leak.

> -JB and Amanda, confused in Beantown. 
> 


   Randy
    randy@taylor.wyvern.com



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