Trevor I've never had a car or lawnmower or chain saw or any other gas
operated machine not start once I poured a little gas into each cylinder.
This bypasses everything except the electronics. If it still doesn't start
and usual trouble shooting (see the last two issues of Moss Motoring)
doesn't work then I would guess that the timing or distributor are way out
of kilter.
...Art
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Trevor Boicey wrote:
> Well, I installed the grose-jets and tried to get
> the MGB going. Removed the incorrect float venting
> connections from the DPO, and set the jets to the
> normal 12 flats startup setting. The jets were set
> all the way up (full lean) so I suspect the DPO was
> having richness troubles from the floats that he
> didn't understand so kept trying to lean the jets.
>
> Tried to start it....
>
> No luck, but frankly my battery is dying so fast now that
> I didn't feel I gave it a full test. I gave it about four
> 3-4 second cranks and I am out of battery power. This deep
> cycling is killing it I guess, with the possible addition
> that I have a short that is draining the battery while I
> am fuddling the carbs.
>
> Anything I should know before I hook up the MGB to my
> rice rocket and use that power to crank until it comes
> to life?
>
> I've checked just about everything there is a dozen times,
> and I am pretty sure it will just start now if I can give
> it enough chances. I think all this fuel washing might have
> had a negative impact on how well the bores are sealing,
> although a compression test still shows reasonably.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey
> Ottawa, Canada
> tboicey@brit.ca
> http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>
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