Evening all,
Hoping someone can once again assist me with my pinto.
It has done practically zero miles since rebuild, just couple trips up and down the drive.
It has had the carbs setup with a base setting and did start and idle well. While pulling away it does bog down so you need to dip the clutch to clear it then it goes with some higher revs (stills need tweaked I guess)
Until today........It would not start, even had to connect up another car for some extra juice as I drained the battery.
While trying to fault find, I took the plugs out and they were all wet and black. A quick wipe with a rag cleaned them up like new. Then I dried them with some heat. Stuck them in and it started first turn of the key. Left it running to charge the battery up a bit and stopped it to go do other things. During its running it was idling fine and i drove it out the garage (still with the bogging down issue)
Anyway, I came back about 2 hours later to put it in the garage and again it wouldn't start. So, plugs out and repeat the above and again (as they were wet and black) It then started first turn of the key but it didn't move well at all. While trying to reverse it was dying away, coughing and spluttering. Never as bad as this before.
We done a compression check and all 4 cylinders were the same. Just under 125 psi on the gauge (no idea if the gauge is accurate or not but read the same for them all regardless)
Any ideas what is going on? Where the black oily coating is coming from?
Its a diluted coating of oil as its not 'thick', I assume petrol is mixing with it.
Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated.
David
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