Teacherman
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I bought a 79 Spitfire 1500 about six weeks ago, and have been slowly working out various kinks left behind by the previous owner. My latest is puzzling, and I found it by accident. The PO removed the catalytic converter (left the EGR) to make room for high-performance headers. The carbon canisters are still in place. One is connected to via number of hoses, the other isn't connect at all.
I installed a hose to connect the two canisters because I saw that's was listed in a Victoria British catalog (I was replacing worm water choke and heater hoses at the time), and the car wouldn't start. It would crank, turn over, but not catch. Took off the connector hose, everything worked fine.
Then, I briefly covered up the connector hose line to the canister which was linked to the engine and the car died. By briefly, I mean a few seconds. I started it back up and covered up the hole; it died again. This, to me, seems like something is seriously wrong or something is misconnected. I haven't played with these lines, but it looks like I might have to.
As a side note, the car does have timing and carb issues. The timing is set to 0 degrees BTDC. It should be 10 degrees. If we set it to 10 degrees it idles around 1600 and won't come down. Idle adjustments on the carb do not help. Could these problems be related?
John
I installed a hose to connect the two canisters because I saw that's was listed in a Victoria British catalog (I was replacing worm water choke and heater hoses at the time), and the car wouldn't start. It would crank, turn over, but not catch. Took off the connector hose, everything worked fine.
Then, I briefly covered up the connector hose line to the canister which was linked to the engine and the car died. By briefly, I mean a few seconds. I started it back up and covered up the hole; it died again. This, to me, seems like something is seriously wrong or something is misconnected. I haven't played with these lines, but it looks like I might have to.
As a side note, the car does have timing and carb issues. The timing is set to 0 degrees BTDC. It should be 10 degrees. If we set it to 10 degrees it idles around 1600 and won't come down. Idle adjustments on the carb do not help. Could these problems be related?
John