Hi folks,
Some of you may recall that, a month or so ago, I was started having
some driveability problems with my recently rebuilt 77B. Symptoms were weird
and inconsistent. Was running too rich, running too lean, wouldn't restart when
very warm, timing was to far advanced, too far retarded. Yecchhh! A month ago
I nursed the car up to the garage and set to on installing all of the aesthetic
things I'd purchased over the past couple of years (carpets, upholstery, etc.)
to get ready to sell the car since I'm no longer a commuter.
Yesterday I climbed into the spiffy new cockpit and tried to start the car
to back it out of the garage. No way, Jose'. I knew I set the jets at 12
flats down to get the car up to the garage. I checked the static timing at 5
BTDC. Would not start for anything, and just didn't sound right.
In desperation I pulled the distributor out, removed the LU-144B Pertronix
Ignitor and reinstalled the old point plate. Choke out, turn the key --
Vrooom! Vrooom! Oh, when I think of the time I wasted messing with the
carbs. Took it out on the highway a couple of hours ago and blew some carbon
out. First time I'd run it up to 5000 since the rebuild. (That's in 1, 2, 3
only.) Yep, "90% of SU problems are ... electric"!
--
Bud Krueger
http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/
52TD
77MGB
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