Hi Listers,
Still not much progress I am afraid.
Have now checked the compression which is 100%. Now I am finding it seems to
miss worse than before but improves greatly when I pull out the choke so seems
it could be fuel after all. I disconnected the fuel line before the carbs and
turned over the engine to find a strong flow from the fuel pump.
What next?
TIA
Chris
Chris Buckley <chris.buckley51@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Listers,
I have now changed the sooty plug and going for a test drive tomorrow. It was
definitely sooty rather than oily. Regarding the PCV valve, I have installed a
rocker feed kit as sold by Moss and was wondering if that could be the cause of
a lot of oil being pushed through the valve and being dumped into cylinder no 3
causing it to make the plug sooty.
all advice greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Chris
> When I got home I removed HT leads in turn and found that removing the lead
from number 3 cylinder made the least difference to the idle.
> I then checked all plugs and found No 3 to be 'sooty' while all the others
>were clean burnt light grey colour.
. I would also check the soot
on the plug--does it feel dry and fluffy, or oily? If the latter, it's
time to do a compression check. If the former, the plug could be firing
intermittently, or, there might be a slight vacuum leak at the manifold
at that cylinder.
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