hey guys my brothr is trying to register his car we had it running out at a mates farm it would run great had all the power in the world bring it home get up the next day it starts but no power and back fires and misses and carrys on like a sick old lady whats wrong with it it is a 1100 motor with 1.5" carbie 12g295 head mild cam of graham russel in it race extractors what are your opinons ??????????????

check the carb dash pot oil/fluid.
timing?
running lean?

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All the spark plugs firing? Dissy in good order? ummm getting enough fuel as in running too lean/rich.

Thats all i can think of atm sorry.

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Oh, come on! If you're in a bus station and they sell postcards for Bizzaro World, you have to assume you're in Bizzaro World, right? I mean, am I crazy?

condensor or coil maybe

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

my clubby did that to me on the side of the monash freeway at 3am. Thanks to a nail file, it turned out the points were a bit crappy, she has purred just fine for the last 6 months. Check your points as well man

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Check the distributer clamp or locking bolt(depending on A or A+) , could be loose allowing it to set it's own timing . Also check/adjust/clean the points . How old is the fuel and how well sealed is the tank (how dusty was the farm?) ?

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um everything was good yesterdya dissy real tight everythign but now nothing and fuel is good

check the general area around the coil for a loose wire?

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hi all it is my car. dizzy is good petrol good. the thing that gets me is it was running really well then all of a sudden wont even pull you up a hill just stalls.

Does it have a fuel filter?

no it doesnt.............

Just undo the screws that hold the carby dash pot down & have a look to see how flithy the dash pot bell & carby piston is,,, it might be filthy dirty & making the piston stick

does it idle nice at all?

& yeah maybe clean out the carby float bowl & blow thrugh the jet while it`s all apart

at least once you`ve done that then you iknow it`s all good in there anyways & if it isn`t the problem then at least you`ve eliminated that part from the equation,,, it`s not hard to do & you really can`t stuff things up, just remove the bell & piston, clean them both really well & take the float lid off & clean the bowl out & add a fuel filter & see what happens

K?

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

swap out the plugs.

it will have fouled them, most likely have to go one hotter (recommended for the LRP that we have now).

i have had this with one of my older minis, if you idled the car for two minutes before shutting off the engine, it would start on the two centre cylinders. but never would it start on four.
on the other hand, if you pulled a few revs then shut it off, i would always start on four and run fine. it was running a webber, high compression and a big cam, but even my 850 will give me issues if i let it idle too long and just turn it of (i now always carry spare plugs)

Mitch

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ok fellas ill have a look tomorrow at the float etc..... thanks a lot guys ill let yas know how i go