A couple of ZS tips I just picked up on and thought I'd share. I have a TR6 that was brought into my shop from another repair facility after they couldn't get it to run properly. They have done a valve job, replaced the timing set and put kits in the carbs. It would barely run and is fouling plugs. I pulled the carbs figuring they knew not what they were doing and the float levels were off. A shake of the floats indicated the plastic is leaking and they were half full of fuel. New ones are on order. I understand this to be a rather common occurance with the plastic floats so may be worth a look if experiancing rich mixture or flooding.
A friend, that is quite the wiz with these sidedraft carbs, offered a couple of other recomendations.
1 Block the idle air bypass off as any problems with the diaphram will cause irratic idle.
2 Turn the trimming screw all the way in for same reason
3 Disconect and plug the vacuum retard at the dizzy and the port on the bypass valve (not sure if this retard was used on the TR7 &
These mods may not be Smog legal but he assures me it makes setting idle and mixture much simpler. These devices were used to get emissions acceptable at idle speed only by leaning the mixture and retarding the timing. The car I'm working on has Antique registration and is Smog exempt.
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