CGT back together running terrible need help

[Huw Powell]

> I recently got the head back on the CGT after the broken TT valve spring
> incident.  The car was running poorly before I pulled the head and I
> attributed that to low compression due to the beat up valve seats and the one
> valve that was just kind of sitting there.
>
> Now when I start the car it will fire and run but it sputters and bogs then
> dies also reeks of gas.

Sounds like it set way too rich (or making itself that way).  That would
explain the reek if there is no leak, and the sputter and die routine.

Try turning the 3 mm adjuster thing in the fuel distributor a couple
three whole turns (that is a *lot* for that adjustment) CCW to lean out
the static mixture.  keep track so you can put it back if it does no good.

Could also be the warm up regulator, or the fuel distributor itself.

If you really manage to nail down a bad CIS part, I still have a few in
the attic.

> I have quadruple checked all of the timing including
> the ignition timing which is at 0.  The only thing I did notice is that the
> distributor is notchy feeling when it comes to one of the Hall windows.
> Isn't it supposed to spin freely?  I don't have any fuel leaks and no
> noticeable vacuum leaks.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated since I am at the head scratching
> point.  This is an '83 CGT with CIS not CIS-e.  It does have the underhood
> fuse box however somehow I got lucky there.
>
> Thanks
> Matt Kramer
>
>

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Huw Powell

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