Mitch
You may have sinking floats in the carbs. After exposure to fuel, they take
on some of it and start to get a bit heavy. This causes an over rich
condition and poor running. I only speak of this cause it happened to me
with similar symptoms. If your are brass, contact some vendor for some of
the late model plastic ones. It made a difference!
By the way, Who has a roll bar to fit my 1968 1600? I want to fit a bar to
provide for useful shoulder harness type seat belts.
I have inquired of the manufacturers, and I am will
Wish I had an assortment of roadsters to go see. I have a project in the
works, and kind of don't want to take the present one apart. "It is so
sweet" as my teen age son would say.
Regards
Calvin Grandy
Vermont
>
> Just in the short drive to the gas station I noticed a large increase in
> power at lower rpms. Filled up, and went out for a test drive. Much, much
> better. No pinging, more power, very nice. This is how I remember it
running
> 15 years ago. I hopped on the highway and drove a couple of miles at about
> 80mph (since this is Michigan I was being passed anyways). After I got off
> the highway engine performance was vastly different and much worse than
> before. It made a puttering type noise while trying to accelerate instead
of
> the normal engine roar. I drove back home with a big pickup right on my
tail
> and checked the timing again - it hadn't changed. Thinking I had set it
> backwards (using the opposite mark for TDC), I reset it. Ran like #$&^%. I
> set it back again and it still ran poorly with the occasional backfire. At
> this point I gave up.
>
> I think that either I've got the timing all ass-backwards, or the gas
> stirred up some sediment.
>
> All the above was written yesterday - crazy day at the office so I
couldn't
> send it. I did research on timing and distributors on the list archives
> today and I'm going to check to see where the pointer marks the timing at
> with piston #1 at the top. I'm thinking it's not gas now because I'm
getting
> backfires.
>
> BTW, I'm going to look at a couple of Roadsters after work tonight, one is
a
> 68 2000, no engine, trans, or carbs, the other is a 70 1600, body off but
> sitting on car.
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