[Healeys] air/fuel mixture

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 21:13:07 MDT 2009


Jess -

Have you rebuilt your carbs?  If your needles and jets are worn, no
amount of adjustment will get your carbs to run properly.  Also, H
series carbs are very finicky - the jet corks need to be new and oiled
otherwise you'll be leaking fuel, possibly upward into the carb making
it run rich.

Alan

On 6/21/09, Jess Power <jessmd1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   I need some help-----again.I bought a colortune and synched the
> carbs in my BN1.It is running really rough and the colortune shows
> yellow or a too rich mixture even with the air/fuel mixture nuts
> almost completely closed.It is still running hot even with a new water
> pump,new thermostat an a radiater rodding.I think the timing might be
> off.It is backfiring from the tailpipe and the carbs.Any suggestions?
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-- 
Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


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