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--- Daniel Baum <dbaum@isdn.net.il> wrote: > Hi all, > > It is now almost 2 weeks since I managed to start my > T34's engine. Haven't > really had time to do much to it since then apart > from some minor electrical > stuff. I suppose the engine has run altogether for > maybe 15 minutes in the > last 10 days. I haven't actually driven the car > because it has problems with > its auto gearbox and won't go backwards. > > Anyway, up to now it ran pretty smoothly, but today > it began to stall and > backfire. I could actually see a little puff of > flame coming out of the left > carb. It would hardly idle at all without stalling, > but still ran if I > increased the revs. > > Frankly, considering that the engine was > non-functional for maybe a couple > of years before today, I was surprised that it > didn't behave like this right > from the start. However, given that it has been > running quite well up to > now, what should I look at? I haven't checked > valves, timing or anything > else - I was of course going to do that anyway - but > I would have thought > that if the engine was well enough adjusted to chug > along at low revs > before, then it should still be now. So what I am > really asking is; can > anyone suggest why it suddenly misbehaves, when it > worked reasonably well > before? > > Sorry to waffle on, but I am really new to this, I > took on the project > mostly as an educational project, rather than > because of the prospect of the > car ever becoming transport, but I don't want to > screw it up (or maybe blow > it up!) right at the beginning because of my lack of > experience! > > > regards to all, > > Daniel Baum > '69 T34: Everything missing, nothing works. > check your gas , could be very old. Clean carb's , check vaccume advance , make sure it dosen't have holes in it . set points to .016 , plugs set to .024 ,adjust valves to .006, timing to TDC (just a general tune up, you did change the oil after it set for two years I hope). If this dosen't work you may have to soak the carb's in cleaner. GOOD LUCK PHIL. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit > http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com