I haven't been driving the wagon much for the last few weeks due to having a work pick up. The few times I have driven it recently the car has been really hard to start (which I thought must have been due to the colder mornings we've had recently), down on power when going up hills and at low revs and seems to be sucking down the petrol. It also needed lots of revs to get going. It was about time for a new batch of oil so I though I'd give it a bit of a tune to try and sort the problem. I was suspecting the distributor..
Valves were fine. I took out the spark plugs and checked the gaps. One was fine, but the other three had closed up, one of them was under 0.45mm and they needed to be 0.8mm. They were all fine when I put them in last time so it was a bit strange? I checked the points too and they had closed right up as well so I gapped them properly too (installing the electronic distributor has now jumped up the "to do" list). Chucked all the bits back together and she started up first crank. I went for a drive around to warm it up and see if it was any better. It was a huge improvement, much more go at low revs and less throttle on the highway.
Came back and checked the timing warm. It was advanced about 20 degrees instead of 8 so I adjusted it back. The pickup is now much much better and the throttle is a lot more linear. I celebrated by driving my favorite country roads home
Magics back!
Valves were fine. I took out the spark plugs and checked the gaps. One was fine, but the other three had closed up, one of them was under 0.45mm and they needed to be 0.8mm. They were all fine when I put them in last time so it was a bit strange? I checked the points too and they had closed right up as well so I gapped them properly too (installing the electronic distributor has now jumped up the "to do" list). Chucked all the bits back together and she started up first crank. I went for a drive around to warm it up and see if it was any better. It was a huge improvement, much more go at low revs and less throttle on the highway.
Came back and checked the timing warm. It was advanced about 20 degrees instead of 8 so I adjusted it back. The pickup is now much much better and the throttle is a lot more linear. I celebrated by driving my favorite country roads home
Magics back!