jswagger wrote:Before I took the carb off, when the engine was cold it would be a pig to start, but would start. Amongst other things, it turned out that the choke pull down unit and the choke plate linkage that Kev kindly supplied were broken. Does this mean that previously the choke wasn't coming on at all?
What's really confusing me is, now, regardless of whether the choke is correctly set up, shouldn't the van still start as it did before?
The van has been off the road for 5 weeks now so unless something else has coincidentally broken in the meantime?
There's a lot of assumptions there.
Start again, methodical.
jswagger wrote:Before I took the carb off, when the engine was cold it would be a pig to start, but would start. Amongst other things, it turned out that the choke pull down unit and the choke plate linkage that Kev kindly supplied were broken. Does this mean that previously the choke wasn't coming on at all?
What's really confusing me is, now, regardless of whether the choke is correctly set up, shouldn't the van still start as it did before?
The van has been off the road for 5 weeks now so unless something else has coincidentally broken in the meantime?
There's a lot of assumptions there.
Start again, methodical.
I will check the sparks and fuel just to rule them out.
And the timing is good
Plugs in the right order
It's difficult remotely advising to get a non starter started, but my advice would be to use the eggcup petrol in the carb method.
I would
Fully charge the batt
Do a static timing
take couple of the plugs out and clean em.
Turn the engine over to dry the bores
Make sure the leads are on right
Tip some fuel in the carb
Crank it till it fires.
If it doesn't then I would suspect a weak or intermittent spark.
kevtherev wrote:
And the timing is good
Plugs in the right order
It's difficult remotely advising to get a non starter started, but my advice would be to use the eggcup petrol in the carb method.
I would
Fully charge the batt
Do a static timing
take couple of the plugs out and clean em.
Turn the engine over to dry the bores
Make sure the leads are on right
Tip some fuel in the carb
Crank it till it fires.
If it doesn't then I would suspect a weak or intermittent spark.
Thanks Kev, I totally understand the difficulty in remote diagnostics and your help is much appreciated.
Apologies for delay, I had hoped to post on Friday but been having computer problems.
As mentioned above Ric extremely kindly came down and sorted everything . When I started the engine today from cold it fired first time no less and settled onto fast idle. The missing alternator nut has been replaced and a suitable bolt found to secure the broken engine earth. New breather tower, plugs and leads have been ordered.
Thanks to all who helped , especially Kev for providing the linkage itself.
Not only am I a much happier, my neighbours must be delighted at not having to hear me trying to start the van!!
Last edited by jswagger on 02 Mar 2019, 20:09, edited 1 time in total.
Rotor arm may have come adrift as van started with a substitute arm. The original one had marks on it from where it was rubbing on the distributor cap but is now back in running fine.
Choke was wasn't coming off correctly as I had managed to insert the linkage in the wrong way round! Ric spotted this and managed to take the choke spindle apart and put back together correctly .
Timing I don't think was out but hopefully Ric can remember.?
