Hi,
I have an over restored '48 MG TC in the garage. It belonged to my father
and after the estate dust settled the title was mine. Last October I took
Amtrak from Chicago to Ann Arbor and after putting a new battery in it I
drove down US-12 to Chicago. I had to clean the varnish bits out of the
fuel filter a couple of times on that first drive but other wise it ran
fine.
I've had it out for short drives around the city and so far I've been
surprised how easy it starts and runs. Besides a fuel leak that only
required me to fettle the connections at the carbs it has been pretty
trouble free. That is until it was time to give my wife her parking space
in the garage. Because I would always take my 7 year old son with me she
was quite happy to park on the street and let the MG live in the garage with
9 of my vintage motorcycles. When I went to move it to the remote garage,
it did start but it idled a rough and then it was making barely enough power
to move. I got it to the end of the alley and turned around. It felt very
much like a twin cylinder motorcycle running on one cylinder.
I pulled the plugs and each one of them shows some spark. So now I have no
idea what to do next. These SU oil pot carbs are a complete mystery to me.
I've been instructed by several car specialists to not touch them. Besides
putting new plugs in to see if I've to a lean or rich cylinder the only two
ideas I have are to read the manual or to make this post and see what you
'car guys' can tell the guy with 2 garages and a basement full of
motorcycles.
I can get a '65 Ducati single motor open and re-shin the gear box and have
it back in and running in nearly three hours but I haven't done anything
more complex to a car than charge the battery since I had a '70 Nova in High
school circa 1979. I'm picking up signs of diminishing patientce from the
spousal unit, so HELP !
-RickL
Motorcycle fleet is here : http://tinyurl.com/4nuyb
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