Richard,
Sounds not completely unlike a recent problem with a friend's 66B that
has stock SU carbs. After a year of hair-pullling, doing all the things
you have done, he took it to an MG specialist who immediately diagnosed
that one of the float bowl-to-main jet hoses had collapsed. These are
the short (2"?) wire-wound jobbies. I think you could pull the wire
back to check.
Geoff Cram
66B
gcram@wdni.com
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From: Richard Hauser
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Timing chain slipped?
Date: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 6:57AM
I have a 68 B that I am experiencing some problems with. The car ran
perfect for the past two years and all of the sudden it started to not
respond when I hit the gas and begin backfiring. I went through all the
usual tuneup stuff. Set the valves, 2 new sets of points and condenser,
timing, carb setup all done two or three times. Even put a distributor
off another car on it. No effect. Got spark, got air, got gas, no
vacumn leaks. When I advance the timing way up (1/4 revolution) it runs
better but still not right. Has my timing chain slipped (it doesn't
make noise)? TIA
Richard Hauser
79B, 68B, 73 Midget
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