Hi Ed,
The floats I feel pretty comfortable about. I have gross valves in
there and spent a quite a bit of time getting the float level set to
where I interpret the book says. I could be wrong, it has happened
before. Also, I'm not talking about much of an incline. The hiway I
was driving on has just a slight 2 to 4 degree incline at best. In
any other vehicle I've driven on that road you don't even notice it.
I'm just hopping its not the valve adjustments. I set those about 9
years ago. The car was never run until now but they do sound just a
bit louder than I would have expected. (lifter clatter). If I can't
find anything next weekend when I get home again then I'll probably
check the float levels at that time. I guess I'll add them to my
list of possibles.
Thanks for the feed back.
> Just an idle thought, but are you sure the floats are correct in
> your fuel bowls? When on an incline, the engine could be starving
> for fuel.
>
> Regards,
> Ed Hamilton
>
> Brad Kahler wrote:
>
> > Hi Hap,
> >
> > Yea, I had the gaskets on the wrong carbs. I guess thats what
> > happens when you want to drive and not work!! Its kind of like one
> > vulture was saying to the other vulture, "patience hell, I'm
> > ready to kill something".
> >
> > I went through the tuning procedure again and put the air cleaners on
> > properly. Now it runs better but, heres the funny part. It runs
> > pretty good on a flat road but any and I mean any kind of long
> > shallow incline and the car start bogging down. Now remember here in
> > Nebraska we don't have hills we just have slight ups and downs!!
> >
> > I feel pretty comfortable with the engine timing being correct. One
> > thing that did concern me. In order to get the proper dwell on the
> > dwell meter I had to close the point gap more than what the book
> > calls for. Haynes says the dwell should be 39 degrees. I don't
> > remember of hand what the point gap is supposed to be but I know I
> > couldn't get the feeler gauge between the points after adjusting for
> > dwell. Could this be the problem of lack of power? Should I ignore
> > the dwell setting and just use the point gap setting?
> >
> > Brad (In Lincoln Nebraska 402-464-1502)
> >
> > 1964 Spitfire4 BFC25720L (Back on the Road!!!!!)
> > 1966 TR4A CT72398L (Car is finally home and ready for
>Restoration)
> > 1951 Dodge Truck 82217766 B-3-B-108 (Frame back in garage and ready to
>paint)
>
>
>
Brad (In Lincoln Nebraska 402-464-1502)
1964 Spitfire4 BFC25720L (Back on the Road!!!!!)
1966 TR4A CT72398L (Car is finally home and ready for
Restoration)
1951 Dodge Truck 82217766 B-3-B-108 (Frame back in garage and ready to
paint)
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