Well, after 18 years, it finally happened. I was
stranded in my LBC today. Sure looked good on the
flatbed.
Coming home from work everything was fine with the
Bugeye, then accelerating out of first the revs shot
up. Immediately cut the engine and pulled into a
parking lot. One of the bolts holding the hood prop
was gone (it was fine last night). Into the woods to
find a hood prop. Suitable log found. Propped hood,
throttle was free and easy. Found dizzy pinch bolt
loose. Tightened it up. Started it up, car sounded
terrible. Tried playing with dizzy, no benefit. Took
of K&N, started car again. Fuel puffing out the
velocity stacks of the weber. Lean out idle mixture,
no benefit. Open up carb, float seemed ok. Start
again, no good, still farting fuel. Start pulling
plug wires, NO EFFECT AT ALL. Strange. Figure now I
got the car so out of tune it is almost hopeless. No
timing light, so I try the dizzy "somewhere in the
middle", as if this might work.
Disconnected/connected Pertronix leads, nothing
better. Opened carb again, now float seemed stuck.
Getting warmer, me thinks. Smoke that previously
mentioned sneek Marlboro (away from the fuel puddles
of course). Raise float level a tad. No benefit. Go
through several iterations of stuff, pray to St.
Anthony and MOWOG, nothing. I give, car is spitting
fuel, sounds like crap, won't go anywhere without
massive backfiring from carb. Will check static
timing, set idle timing, set weber idle to starting
points, and pull plugs, etc. Bad coil, maybe coupled
with stuck float??? Almost called Jersey information
to call Clarici, but called tow truck instead. Any
ither ideas???
Thanks for listening,
Ron
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