Philip Hubbard wrote:
>
> A quick progress report on my 1974 Midget. Went to emissions on Saturday
> morning at 7:30am not giving myself much chance. I was right. Not even
> close. My friendly mechanic just told me to tweak and come back.
>
> Took the car up to MG T's run by Rob Medynski. This guy is a gem. Knows
> his MGs hands down and very, very reasonably priced. If you are near
> northern NJ (W. Milford) and need to go to the pros, see him. Anyway, Rob
> told me my carbs really weren't in that bad a shape (yeah!), but he found
> an air leak. Turns out the intake manifold was bowed...badly. Got a new
> manifold which cured two problems - car no longer runs rough as a cob and
> now my bonnet clears the air filters. At least I think this is the reason
> for the latter improvement. For whatever reason, I'm grateful.
>
> No time to get back to emissions, but that can come next Saturday. I don't
> have an air pump on this though so I'm advised to retard the dist cap, lean
> out the carbs and idle up a tad. Hehehe, who knows. I've just got to pass
> this one time as next year I can register as a historic vehicle and be exempt.
>
> No progress on the fuel fumes though as I ran out of time with Rob.
>
> Thanks to all who suggested fixes for my problems. More probs in a
> following post. :)
>
> Philip
> Burgundy 1974 Midget
Phil
Have you checked that the hoses are connected to the vapor separator
(think thats what its called ) in the trunk. Its that little circular
doo dad on the inner right rear fender in side the trunk. If those
hoses are bad or not connected you will get a bad fuel smell inside the
car. Check it - cant hurt.
Rick
<http://home.ptd.net/~mgrick>
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