[Mgs] Cleaning HIF carbs

[Mike E]

Steve,
Before you get too deep into it, you might just try twiddling the pistons and
tapping the lower part of the carb bodies with a screwdriver handle or
something while someone is turning the engine over.
I've had the same problem starting an MG in the spring.
Good luck!

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> On Apr 10, 2014, at 12:07, "Steve Shoyer" <steve at shoyer.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks - I had pulled off a plug and it was dry, with no fuel odor, which
> made me suspect the carbs.  I thought that there was spark because the
> engine fired when I sprayed the starting fluid, but that was as far as I
> went.
>
> --Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> ...
>
> The other way is to check the plugs after cranking on and off for 30 secs
or
> so.  At the very least the plugs should smell strongly of fuel.  They may
be
> wet i.e. flooded.  If dry and no fuel smell then no fuel is getting through
> to the cylinders.
>
> By the way, don't 'guess' you have spark at the plugs, prove it!
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