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slug
31-08-07, 07:47 PM
car has started misfiring badly its only 1 litre with carb.have change points condesor leads cap rotor arm and plugs in last six months.but choke linkage has fallen apart,is burning a little oil but plugs not oil fouled engine has done 110,000 miles and is smelling very rich strongly suspect carb is shot what do you guys think

Welsh Dan
31-08-07, 09:16 PM
Its either over fuelling, or its a compression/ignition problem, and the richness is because the unburnt fuel is burning in the exhaust.