Anyone thats followed anything I've posted on this forum probably has an idea that I've had a few issues with my 4cyl, for a while things have been fine, problems have returned.
I was aiming to start the car the other day to take it out to finally fit my vacuum circuit for the air con, however, I could not get the car to start.
Eventually I called the AA to get the car to start, however, despite being jumped and cranked, the car would not start, only catching.
We fiddled with timing and touched the car briefly, yet it would not start.
One, recovery truck journey later and it's out at my parents, in a garage and with a variety of tools. Yesterday evening I began fiddling. I have a spark going to all four plugs and fuel going to both Carbs, futhermore, when I disconnect cylinder 3 and 4, the car stalls and very nearly dies. When I disconnect cylinder 1 and 2, however, there is near enough no impact on the running of the car.
The car is hugely down on power and struggles to pull away on level ground, so I've no doubt there is something wrong, though when I adjust the mixture on the front carb, the revs and idle will variate.
I've had the rocker cover off today, to check for valve clearances, however, I'm just curious as to the clearances required. The Inlet is to be within .22 to.28 mm and the exhaust is to be .33 to .38 mm? Is this correct for my 1972 2000tc? as a quick check through the clearances would suggest everything is massively out.
It's probably worth noting also, I was losing coolant over a few weeks, which had a direct co-relation with the difficult in starting the car, (more coolant lost, car harder to start) I traced this to a tear in the inlet manifold gasket, which had been letting a slow driping of water into the cylinder bore... Is this likely to have caused damage? as I'd have thought once starting the car would have just burned off any condensation.
There are a few things I need to check, however, I felt that the timing and the fuel mixture were pretty spot on, however, I've never though to have had issues with the valve timiing. I'm going out to check this in more detail, however, without taking the head off (which will require a new Head Gasket, which at current I don't have.) I'm a little at a loss on what direction to go on this.
As always, any help is massively appreciated, particulary when the issue is stoping the car running.... and in turn preventing me from finishing my NADA air con.
I was aiming to start the car the other day to take it out to finally fit my vacuum circuit for the air con, however, I could not get the car to start.
Eventually I called the AA to get the car to start, however, despite being jumped and cranked, the car would not start, only catching.
We fiddled with timing and touched the car briefly, yet it would not start.
One, recovery truck journey later and it's out at my parents, in a garage and with a variety of tools. Yesterday evening I began fiddling. I have a spark going to all four plugs and fuel going to both Carbs, futhermore, when I disconnect cylinder 3 and 4, the car stalls and very nearly dies. When I disconnect cylinder 1 and 2, however, there is near enough no impact on the running of the car.
The car is hugely down on power and struggles to pull away on level ground, so I've no doubt there is something wrong, though when I adjust the mixture on the front carb, the revs and idle will variate.
I've had the rocker cover off today, to check for valve clearances, however, I'm just curious as to the clearances required. The Inlet is to be within .22 to.28 mm and the exhaust is to be .33 to .38 mm? Is this correct for my 1972 2000tc? as a quick check through the clearances would suggest everything is massively out.
It's probably worth noting also, I was losing coolant over a few weeks, which had a direct co-relation with the difficult in starting the car, (more coolant lost, car harder to start) I traced this to a tear in the inlet manifold gasket, which had been letting a slow driping of water into the cylinder bore... Is this likely to have caused damage? as I'd have thought once starting the car would have just burned off any condensation.
There are a few things I need to check, however, I felt that the timing and the fuel mixture were pretty spot on, however, I've never though to have had issues with the valve timiing. I'm going out to check this in more detail, however, without taking the head off (which will require a new Head Gasket, which at current I don't have.) I'm a little at a loss on what direction to go on this.
As always, any help is massively appreciated, particulary when the issue is stoping the car running.... and in turn preventing me from finishing my NADA air con.