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Russ80MGB
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Hello,
New to the forum but excited to be here. I have a 1980 MGB and when I took it out of storage at my neighbor's garage the car started right up. After allowing it to run for a few minutes I backed it out of the garage. But something just didn't feel right when depressed the accelerator. I took off up the street and it was obvious that something was wrong. It was very slow to rev and there was very little acceleration. I pulled it into my garage and began to diagnose the problem. I initial though that it had bad gas after sitting for 4 months so it "limped" all the way to the gas station and filled up the tank. I ran the car for a long time and still the same problem. Thinking that the carb may have gotten gummed up I took it apart. It was clean as a bone. I changed the plugs, cap and rotor (that didn't look to great), set the ignition timing, changed the fuel filter and made sure that critters didn't use the air cleaner as a storage shed. Still the same problem. I was thinking that maybe something happened to the coil but didn't want to just keep changing parts.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Much appreciated,
Russ
New to the forum but excited to be here. I have a 1980 MGB and when I took it out of storage at my neighbor's garage the car started right up. After allowing it to run for a few minutes I backed it out of the garage. But something just didn't feel right when depressed the accelerator. I took off up the street and it was obvious that something was wrong. It was very slow to rev and there was very little acceleration. I pulled it into my garage and began to diagnose the problem. I initial though that it had bad gas after sitting for 4 months so it "limped" all the way to the gas station and filled up the tank. I ran the car for a long time and still the same problem. Thinking that the carb may have gotten gummed up I took it apart. It was clean as a bone. I changed the plugs, cap and rotor (that didn't look to great), set the ignition timing, changed the fuel filter and made sure that critters didn't use the air cleaner as a storage shed. Still the same problem. I was thinking that maybe something happened to the coil but didn't want to just keep changing parts.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Much appreciated,
Russ
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