Carl........
Your original problem was an oil leak, I believe you said. Your garage
decided to fix this by changing the carburetors. Now the car runs worse than
it did and they want to change your distributor? Seems to me they're trying
to get your car off the road for good!
Don't let them sell you a new distributor! Do have them put your old
carburetors back on and give you back the 230 quid. Obviously they don't
know what they're doing! Any garage that recommends a change of equipment
which results in a degradation of performance fixable only by spending even
more money is one whose advice you should incline to disregard......
Lawrie
British Sportscar Center
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Mole <C.Mole@tees.ac.uk>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, May 11, 1998 1:22 AM
Subject: SU carbs and Dizzy
>Inca Yellow 1978 MGB GT
>
>I recently sprung a oil leak with no idea where it was
>coming from. I spent a full day cleaning the engine block
>of old oil/dirt and eventualy found the oil was coming from
>the top of the dipstick tube.
>I dropped the car of at the garage for a check up, turns
>out that the breather pipes were blocked. The garage
>cleaned up and found a fault on my Carbs (SU HIF's) and
>suggested replacing them with SU HS4's (£230). after
>fitting the new carbs the car runs like a 'dog' -
>sputtering and missing. The garage now suggests replacing
>the Distributer as they are pulling against each other!
>
>I'm no mechanic BUT I thought the timing etc would just
>need adjusting or the carbs balancing and adjusting for the
>car to run properly!
>
>The total cost of the work was £323 pounds, and now I'm
>having to have the car checked out by a tuning specialist.
>
>
>----------------------
>Carl Mole
>C.Mole@tees.ac.uk
>
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