TR6 My 1969 TR6- the Crypt Car

[DrEntropy]

As Paul says, plug the ports on the carbs. Otherwise you're INTRODUCING a vacuum leak.

 

[Tinster]

Plugging the advance and retard unit on the distributor does NO good. You must plug the lines going to each to stop two big vacuum leaks when doing this setup.

<span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="color: #660000">Thanks !! </span> </span>
And to balance the carbs, the linkage should be loose so that they can be adjusted independently of one another.

<span style="color: #660000">Ah !! Ben showed me how to balance carbs and
I remembered that step. I'm a bit fuzzy about lifting the carb
piston 1/4" and listening for mixture.</span>

<span style="color: #006600">Now, concerning my twisted up carb linkage?
This morning I located the culprit. Ratco cable linkage.

I removed the carb linkage and ever so slowly got the two sides
of it unkinked-nice and straight and centered on the short middle linkage
rod. I installed it on the carbs and turned the set screws.

<span style="color: #993399"><span style="font-size: 17pt">Had to do it, had to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></span>

Cranked the red devil up and drove maybe 4 miles in the hood.
At first sputtered and bogged down and missed- just like my
boat engine when I transition from trolling speed to flat out.
We call this action "burning the plugs and cleaning the valves"</span>

The engine slowly belched and burped and wound thru 2000 rpm for about
1/4 mile on a slight uphill. Suddenly a power surge up to 4000 rpm.
After that no bogging down whatsoever. I almost took it into the real streets
but Sundays are difficult to find flatbed tow trucks for breakdowns.

Yup, I'm slowly getting there. Now, I'll re-time it, carbs, etc.

 

[Brosky]

OK, we're getting there. You can stop removing the plugs every time you drive the car. Get it good and warmed up and at the 850-900 rpm setting and set the timing to 10BTDC, possibly having to readjust idle if you end up needing to advance the timing to get it to 10.

Then you can do the carb settings per the Buckeye instructions, OR you can try driving it a s much as possible to get the junk out of there as you do with the boats.

One last thing. How is the oil level? You've been dumping a lot of raw fuel down there. Make sure it's not over full or completely thinned out before you start giving it some juice with the pedal to the metal to clear it out.

And after it smooths out, close the hood and stop tinkering under there. Just drive it and avoid any additional potential self inflicted wounds.