oldminiman
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I took the 1982 Series 3 County SWB in for a French Control Tech today and received a 2 month referral on emission. The Petrol 2.25 Ltr has a reassonably new Weber but gave a CO2 reading of 7.3% I had adjusted the mixture using my old Falcon tester and then discvered that the spark plugs were just about in but not tight. The deposits were dark brown and I must admit to being a bit shocked but on returning home I was able to srew the mixture screw quite a way out and again usin gthe Old Falcon tester got a reading below 1%. I kept fiddling and it flutuated.
What I have noticed this week is on deceleration I am getting a rattle in the inlet or exhaust manifold area. At first I thought it t be the heat shield but once removed the noise remained. I decided t change the plugs and on restatrting the rattle stopped only to return later. I am a bit foxed and have booked it into a local garage on Tuesday. I have noticed the temperature guage is high having repalced the thrmo recently to get it down and now the rad cap. There is no sign of water in the oil or abnormal seam from the exhaust, so although I initially thought the head gasket may have gone apart from the engines temperature fluctuating, the engine it self is not ecessively hot and it may well be the voltage regulator causing the guage to malfuntion.
So we still have the funny rattle beneath the carb and the excessive CO2 and a flutuating temperature guage. Any one had similar problems. The previous owner gave me the CO2 reading from a couple of years ago sayi ng that the teter was shocked at it's low reading, 0.6%, well he wouldn't be now at 7.3%
Oddly my previous posting on Brakes and suspension didn't even get a comment during the test and all the reat of the car was A1, just POLLUTION!!
What I have noticed this week is on deceleration I am getting a rattle in the inlet or exhaust manifold area. At first I thought it t be the heat shield but once removed the noise remained. I decided t change the plugs and on restatrting the rattle stopped only to return later. I am a bit foxed and have booked it into a local garage on Tuesday. I have noticed the temperature guage is high having repalced the thrmo recently to get it down and now the rad cap. There is no sign of water in the oil or abnormal seam from the exhaust, so although I initially thought the head gasket may have gone apart from the engines temperature fluctuating, the engine it self is not ecessively hot and it may well be the voltage regulator causing the guage to malfuntion.
So we still have the funny rattle beneath the carb and the excessive CO2 and a flutuating temperature guage. Any one had similar problems. The previous owner gave me the CO2 reading from a couple of years ago sayi ng that the teter was shocked at it's low reading, 0.6%, well he wouldn't be now at 7.3%
Oddly my previous posting on Brakes and suspension didn't even get a comment during the test and all the reat of the car was A1, just POLLUTION!!
