Since before all the snow earlier this year my 72 bay has been sat, waiting....

Now I have got around to starting it - it just will not fire up.

I have a spark, I have cleaned and gapped the plugs.

I have fuel, if I take the pipe off the carb I get fuel out when I turn the engine over, not much - about 1/2 a cup.

I have not touched the timing or the dizzy, all is at it was.

I have replace the in line fuel filter.

Not sure what to try next, any ideas, anyone?

many thanks

Simon

in Bath

On 10/03/2010 at 10:22 colourfulwords said:

i've been told that modern fuel perishes or breaks down or something, by my mechanic - so that won't have helped you start the engine after so long. i get the same sort of problem getting the van out for the mot in december.

Many thanks, I will siphon the old fuel out, drain the tank, take the opportunity to replace the rubber fuel lines and refill with some nice clean petrol. keep your fingers crossed!

Thanks to all for posts,

I drained the fuel out, it was a bit manky, so kept to one side until can work out what to do with it, seemed to be a lot of water in suspension. The old carb had white waxy residue in the jets. And things have moved on, the new carb I fitted just would not work, so I cleaned up the old one and refitted. It started !!, but would not run on idele, would only run about about 200rpm . I arranged to get it to a tuner, but though I had best run the fuel line in properly first - big mistake.

My question is, the van starts fine, runs for 30 secs then stops again, then will start again after 4 or 5 cranks, then stops again.

Why oh why could this be?

The spark is nice and fat, but will order points, condenser & rotor arm just in case...