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1. Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@scooter.net>; Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:22:20 -0400; Well not literally, of course. Here's the symptom: My '79 Spit 1500 (with a freshly rebuilt Zenith-Stromberg carb, and a catalytic converter) will usually backfire when up-shifting over 3000 RPM. It; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00315.html (8,020 bytes)
2. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Bob Sykes <s1500@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 15:24:41 -0700; I'm not sure if your car has the gulp (diverter) valve. Early '79s did not have it (like '78s). ISTR late '79s did have it. This would be the first culprit to check. Your backfire is due to high bac; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00316.html (8,227 bytes)
3. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@scooter.net>; Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:22:24 -0400; My car is an early 79 (built October 78 according to the sticker on the door jam). It has the single tube from the air pump to the exhaust manifold. (As in the Vicky Brit catalogue page 92, lower lef; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00319.html (8,691 bytes)
4. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Cwn74 <Cwn74@aol.com>; Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:28:43 EDT; Did you just install the XR700? Perhaps the installation of the sensor unit is such that the cap-rotor are not in sync when the unit fires? Re-adjust this appropriately... Easy mistake... Clark; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00323.html (7,609 bytes)
5. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@scooter.net>; Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:29:28 -0400; Thanks for your response, Clark. Yes. (300 miles ago) not OK, better explain this to me in more detail. Followed the Crane instructions faithfully, marking the Distributor body etc. Are you saying th; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00328.html (8,253 bytes)
6. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@scooter.net>; Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:35:58 -0400; Good news, Bob, the backfire was gone without the air pump connected. Hooked it back up, and the backfire returned. Now lets try and reason the theory out. Would that be the "by-pass valve" and "temp; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00343.html (9,090 bytes)
7. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Cwn74 <Cwn74@aol.com>; Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:34:31 EDT; etc. idle? With your present adjustment, say at 6 degrees before top dead center (or whatever), position the crank pulley to that position and take off the distributor cap, noting the plug wire conta; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00345.html (9,180 bytes)
8. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:01:09 -0400; Yes, but the "old fashioned carb dashpot" doesn't perform that job. It is there solely to richen mixture on acceleration, there should be no resistance to the piston falling. -- Trevor Boicey, Ottawa; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00346.html (7,691 bytes)
9. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Bob Sykes <s1500@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:51:08 -0700; Uh-Oh this could be trouble ;-) Not quite. These are emissions control devices, but.... The temperature compensator (not present on your carb if it's stock '78 model) is in fact, a bimetallic strip c; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00349.html (9,935 bytes)
10. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Albert F Jones <fisher@hctc.net>; Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:14:18 -0500; I just can't avoid a comment. In my opinion Trevor has it right about the strength of a B unibody. I have dis-assembled several of each in the last 20 yrs. In 1968 & '69 The South West Division SCCA; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00350.html (10,298 bytes)
11. Re: Spitfire spits fire (score: 1): Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@scooter.net>; Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:03:37 -0400; Whoops, I was wrong about the function of the bypass valve. As luck would have it, our speaker at our Triumph Club meeting Monday night was a carb expert, and straightened me right out. I was also un; /html/spitfires/1998-04/msg00406.html (8,257 bytes)

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