Couple of Concerns
Couple of Concerns
Whilst pocking around under the bonnet yesterday spotted a couple of things I would get a second opinion on.
1st one was the amount of gunk around the Carb, seen this before been inclined to clean it off except wondering what causes it.
Second one the wife spotted it was a small drop of LHM on the Drivers side Strut. The pipes has been replaced sometime in its history and this one does not look as though its sitting right. Tempted to undo and reseat but past experiance has shown not always a good move.
Would it be best to adopt the aint broke dont fix approach to this minor leak?
Advice taken on board from fellow BX owners.
1st one was the amount of gunk around the Carb, seen this before been inclined to clean it off except wondering what causes it.
Second one the wife spotted it was a small drop of LHM on the Drivers side Strut. The pipes has been replaced sometime in its history and this one does not look as though its sitting right. Tempted to undo and reseat but past experiance has shown not always a good move.
Would it be best to adopt the aint broke dont fix approach to this minor leak?
Advice taken on board from fellow BX owners.
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If the pipes been out before, whoever did it probably didn't turn the seal round.
Try giving it a gentle tweak, if that doesn't help, remove pipe, remove seal, turn seal around, refit pipe, should sort the weep.
All carbs gunk up like that mate, it wont hurt.
Try giving it a gentle tweak, if that doesn't help, remove pipe, remove seal, turn seal around, refit pipe, should sort the weep.
All carbs gunk up like that mate, it wont hurt.
Smokes lots, because enough's enough already!
Far too many BX's, a bus, an ambulance a few trucks, not enough time and never enough cash...
Far too many BX's, a bus, an ambulance a few trucks, not enough time and never enough cash...
cheers. The strut I think I will tackle on one of those good warm days when I have patiance. Prating around with a fragile object in single digit temps is proably not a smart thing to do unless urgent.
The Carb this did concern me simply because of the three cars parked up the 19TRS is the most difficult bugger to start on these cold mornings. I am hesitating in taking it up the mountain because of this.
Nothing worse than a 16RS thats going to be dismantled starting first bloody time after a week parked up
The Carb this did concern me simply because of the three cars parked up the 19TRS is the most difficult bugger to start on these cold mornings. I am hesitating in taking it up the mountain because of this.
Nothing worse than a 16RS thats going to be dismantled starting first bloody time after a week parked up
Any decent choke and carb cleaner spray will shift the gunk off the carb, probably a good idea to get a small stiff brush to help it on it's way. Once cleaned if there is any kind of leak it might help it be found better though I've owned cars that looked much worse than that and ran fine.
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All cars should start easily - so if it doesn't - there's something wrong.
1 st question is ignition or fuel?
Does it start better when primed with the accelerator pump? - if so suspect choke mechanism.
If not start checking the electrics - leads would be a good place to start if they're several years old. You can meter them - should be around 10,000 ohms.
Then its distributor cap, rotor arm general connections . . . .
1 st question is ignition or fuel?
Does it start better when primed with the accelerator pump? - if so suspect choke mechanism.
If not start checking the electrics - leads would be a good place to start if they're several years old. You can meter them - should be around 10,000 ohms.
Then its distributor cap, rotor arm general connections . . . .
Tim, Now thats an idea The decommisioned BX that starts easily I could use its carb? Been thinking of swapping the leads from it as they look quite new.
mnde, you may be on to something. Few weeks ago wifey put 91octane yuk in the car but I never noticed any pinking. Not sure how good my local is for checking this. I know what everyone is going to say but as I have no choice can someone tell me what the setting is for running on 95 octane?
mnde, you may be on to something. Few weeks ago wifey put 91octane yuk in the car but I never noticed any pinking. Not sure how good my local is for checking this. I know what everyone is going to say but as I have no choice can someone tell me what the setting is for running on 95 octane?