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I took the TR3 to a local car cruise in a week ago. The car started right up and drove smoothly out of the lot. I ran it up through the gears with no problem. But when I pulled to a stop at red light about a mile later it wouldn't idle. When I tried to pull away there was no power and had to rev it higher just to make it move. Carbs were just rebuilt by a widely known and recommended guy. The change to no power came on suddenly. Any clues? Could it have been because I was surrounded by a lot full of Japanese tuner cars?
 
Fuel delivery issue?

Loosen the fuel cap and see if that has any effect.

Fuel filter OK?
 
Did the carb rebuild include adjusting the mixture on the car, with the engine fully warmed up?

Did the problem clear up after driving a bit? More information would help.

Lots of folks (including myself) have been having problems caused by high temperatures combined with E10 fuel. I don't know if you can buy E0 in VA, but if so, you might try a tankful and see if it helps.
 
They do sell e10 here in europe and I had problems with rough idling at any temp and my engine and carbs were just comepletely rebuilt. Even had a local brit auto only mechanic fine tune the carbs without any improvement. I discovered Shell offers 100 octane at some of it's gas stations it made a world of difference on the first tank. The sluggishness disappeared and overall performance was dramatically improved. Maybe an octane boost additive might be helpful.
 
ethanol was made to drink with mixers and not made to put in petrol, \\do you know it takes more energy to make a gallon of ethanol than the energy you get out of a gallon of ethanol. did you know that the EPA mandates that cars get more miles per gallon and that as you increase the ethanol in petrol your gas mileage goes down because per gallon ethanol has less BTU value that Petrol,


no good thing comes from government except life time memeber that dont work

Hondo
 
hondo402000 said:
do you know it takes more energy to make a gallon of ethanol than the energy you get out of a gallon of ethanol.
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The paper that said that (some air head at UC Berkley with a axe to grind) has been generally discredited. For one thing, it ignored the useful byproducts (which also contain energy). Plus there have been substantial improvements in the process since then.

Estimates vary, but most sources seem to agree that ethanol returns 25 - 60% more energy than it takes to produce it. Besides, if you know of a better renewable energy source that will work in existing cars, we'd love to hear about it (and the world will make you rich).

Hmmm, wonder how hard it would be to convert a TRactor motor to run on biodiesel :crazyeyes:
 
Well, I just had to overhaul the fuel system on both my generator and a seldom used trim mower due to ethanol degradation.
Fuel line on the gen leaked for it's entire length. PITA!
Mower carb jets and passages all pluged up.

I hate ethanol.
 
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Randall, there is a company in RI that converts MB's to run on cooking oil. I had to follow one for about three miles before I couldn't stand the smell any longer and just pulled of for a coffee and let him disappear ahead of me.
 
Brosky said:
Randall, there is a company in RI that converts MB's to run on cooking oil. I had to follow one for about three miles before I couldn't stand the smell any longer and just pulled of for a coffee and let him disappear ahead of me.
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Yeah, but I'm pretty sure they start with a diesel engine!

My understanding is that it is not too difficult to convert used cooking oil into something that can be burned in an unmodified diesel engine. The exhaust still smells somewhat like a french fryer, but not as bad as running on cooking oil directly.
 
First of all thanks for all the suggestions and help. Steve was the closest with his running on one carb answer. It was running on two--but one piston was stuck in the up position. I worked it up and down several times and that seemed to remove the burr, grit, dirt, filing, gunk, etc. that was hanging it in the up position. I'll keep away from that tuner crowd from now on.
 
Photo703 said:
First of all thanks for all the suggestions and help. Steve was the closest with his running on one carb answer. It was running on two--but one piston was stuck in the up position. I worked it up and down several times and that seemed to remove the burr, grit, dirt, filing, gunk, etc. that was hanging it in the up position. I'll keep away from that tuner crowd from now on.
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Might be a good idea, my 928 gave up last month under similar circumstances. :laugh: Got next to a tuner at a light, then pulled in for a carwash and died on the way into the bay. :laugh:
 
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