The following was emailed to me and I thought I
would ask the collective wisdom of the net.
The car in question is a TR3.
> I have some research for you to if if you would be so kind. My tr3 runs
> like shit. It blows yuns of black smoke out the tail pipe on acceleration.
> Smells real bad too. It seems to be getting worse as well. I am worried it
> is something mechanical that has failed. In the past I always thought it
> was mixture and this "choke problem" I told you about with the mixture
> resetting itself. But now I am not sure. The mixture test (raising the
> piston in the carb) shows the mixture is OK (unless I am doing it wrong).
> It does not seem to be oil burning, that would be blue and smell differently.
What would cause black smoke on acceleration?
I thought about too-thick carb oil but it would
have to be molasses to be this bad.
Torn carb diaphragm? Ideas?
I think the car is still rideable, but not pleasant.
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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