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setting timing, carb settings and a non-running Spit

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Subject: setting timing, carb settings and a non-running Spit
From: Tim Schuh <tim@ugly.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:07:57 -0500
The 76 1500 I have has electronic ignition in it.  I'm pretty sure I've 
got the timing right but the car just won't run on petrol.  I moved the 
timing mark on the main pulley to 10 BTDC and lined up the little red 
mark on the rotor shaft with the arrow on the Hall Effect sensor.  I 
know I'm not using correct terminology but hopefully someone will be 
able to translate for me. :)

The car has a Weber DGV and I've set it following this guide:
http://www.mgbexperience.com/reference/3236dgev.html

The adjustable bits varied only slightly:

Idle jets of .60 and .50
Main jets of 140 and 135
Air correction of 165 and 160

Fresh plugs that are correctly gapped.  Gapping is almost foreign to me. 
  The last time I gapped a plug was for a lawn mower when I was in grade 
school.  Rotaries don't get gapped as they have a four ground electrodes 
  on the same plane as the center electrode.  I did breath a sigh of 
relief when I opened the distributor and didn't see points though. :)

What more should I look at?
-- 
Tim Schuh
Network Primate
Ugly Networks





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