Hi All,
Oh the shame. We were up in the hills at the classic car and bikers gathering point of North Wales - at the Ponderosa at the top of the Horsheshoe pass - top down, beautiful day. All had been going well, until we came to leave.
Oh dear a puddle of fuel under the car. On investigating and turning over the ignition - I noticed fuel pouring out of the carburetor overflow.
On checking/testing both the Stromberg dashpots - I noticed one side had no resistance at all. Would this cause such a level of fuel flow straight to overflow? With such a fuel overflow I clearly gave in too easily and called for a breakdown vehicle. Amongst all the cool cars and bikes - the Stag came home on the back of a truck!!
On arriving home and with access to oil - I topped up the dashpots and after a little coughing and spluttering, the Stag is now running again. I also took all the plugs out to see if any of them were wet - and all looked light brown and nice. So it's clearly a carburation issue.
Oh the shame. We were up in the hills at the classic car and bikers gathering point of North Wales - at the Ponderosa at the top of the Horsheshoe pass - top down, beautiful day. All had been going well, until we came to leave.
Oh dear a puddle of fuel under the car. On investigating and turning over the ignition - I noticed fuel pouring out of the carburetor overflow.
On checking/testing both the Stromberg dashpots - I noticed one side had no resistance at all. Would this cause such a level of fuel flow straight to overflow? With such a fuel overflow I clearly gave in too easily and called for a breakdown vehicle. Amongst all the cool cars and bikes - the Stag came home on the back of a truck!!
On arriving home and with access to oil - I topped up the dashpots and after a little coughing and spluttering, the Stag is now running again. I also took all the plugs out to see if any of them were wet - and all looked light brown and nice. So it's clearly a carburation issue.
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