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Hi all,
Discovered this forum a couple of days ago and found some great info already.
A quick intro:
A typical mini story had 4 minis in the family 20 years ago and its time to live the heartache once again. I started looking for a mini about 8 months ago and soon found my dream car, a 2 owner, Mini K that only hit the road on Sundays. The guy was asking a good price but this car drove like new so I banged down $1,000 deposit and waited an agonizing week while he got a roadworthy. Got the call from the owner to say she's ready to go, so I planned to pick it up Sunday morning. Then just as the family were all set to go the phone rang. It was the owners wife to say she wouldn't let hubby sell the mini! Devistated and deeply depressed not to mention a little pee'd off. I then set out to find another but nothing came close.
6 months later after spending all my money on my house, I came across a cheap, locally owned 72 clubman totally original except for bonnet pins. It's tan in colour with cream interior and has bugger all rust.
It's currently unregistered so my plan is to try get it running right first.
Clutch and brakes seem fine.
This mini hadn't been on the road in four years. It started ok but ran like a dog so I bought new plugs, leads, cap, rotor, points, condensor and air filter.
As I haven't had a mini for some years, I was careful to take note of where each lead came from and put the new ones on accordingly. I couldn't believe it, it still ran like a dog! Then I found a Gregories mini manual and discoverd the leads were wrong all along.
Now at least she starts easy and idles ok. But when you give it some throttle it kinda stutters.
I checked the float level which seems ok and the dashpot is full of oil.
I tried to do the timing with a strobe light but there's no marks on the block, is that normal? And where should you connect the strobe light as the battery is in the boot?
I turned the distributor a little until the motor sounded ok.
I checked the valve clearances and found 2 were a little tight so I corrected those.
A new coil will be arriving today so maybe that could be part of the problem.
Can anyone explain the timing proceedure and how to tune the carby.
Any help from here will be much appreciated.
Sorry about the essay.
Tim
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