well the tinker toy tinkered out on the way home from a friday nite cruise in.... drove fine all nite till the long and dark road in middle of nowhere. started to sputter and blow black smoke and fire balls out the exhaust. was a sight for the car behind me esp since it was getting dark..lol
motor died but had enought momentum to coast into a BBQ place, where the car behind me turned in as well, had to push it into a parking place, and tried to start it but it just cranked over and over. then a lady with a cell phone came up to me and wanted to know it i needed to use it to call someone. (kinda neat that she pulled over to help, she even said it was a cool ride) i thanked her and told her i had a cell.
tried to start it again and it fired up and ran fine. attempted to drive out and it made it a 1/4 mile and did the same thing again. pulled into the weeds and called a tow truck. while waiting i tinkered wth carb, and leaned it out a full turn and it ran still.
tow arrived and he said neat land rover, his brother was into land rovers and had 2 88's but sold them. he even gave me break on the tow on the flat bed, kinda cool. even though it broke down it was nice to find people who were interested in the land rover, and knew someone who had one.
also on the way to the cruise in i was followed by a range rover and he drove into the cruise in to say hi. i told him i hoped that my exhaust fumes didnt kill him, he said it looked to be running rich, and saw the exhaust cough a few black hair balls out while following. he suggested to check dwell, and timing them adjust carb. which i was going to tomorrow...until the murphy's law wrench was thrown..lol
it always had a black exhaust, an occasional cough between shifting between 1 to 2nd gear. i leaned carb out prior to this and it still had a black exhaust when getting on it. would have thought it jumped timing but it ran normal when started up again. just took a few cranks longer. fuel bowl has gas in it, filter has gas in it. some rust scales but not that much on the new filter.
any ideas?? though its a bummer iam looking forward to attempting to fix it..lol (it ran great off the flat bed, across the yard to the back garage) really weird.
thanks
james
ps hope the world doesnt end in 1 min, i am looking forward to working on the land rover..
motor died but had enought momentum to coast into a BBQ place, where the car behind me turned in as well, had to push it into a parking place, and tried to start it but it just cranked over and over. then a lady with a cell phone came up to me and wanted to know it i needed to use it to call someone. (kinda neat that she pulled over to help, she even said it was a cool ride) i thanked her and told her i had a cell.
tried to start it again and it fired up and ran fine. attempted to drive out and it made it a 1/4 mile and did the same thing again. pulled into the weeds and called a tow truck. while waiting i tinkered wth carb, and leaned it out a full turn and it ran still.
tow arrived and he said neat land rover, his brother was into land rovers and had 2 88's but sold them. he even gave me break on the tow on the flat bed, kinda cool. even though it broke down it was nice to find people who were interested in the land rover, and knew someone who had one.
also on the way to the cruise in i was followed by a range rover and he drove into the cruise in to say hi. i told him i hoped that my exhaust fumes didnt kill him, he said it looked to be running rich, and saw the exhaust cough a few black hair balls out while following. he suggested to check dwell, and timing them adjust carb. which i was going to tomorrow...until the murphy's law wrench was thrown..lol
it always had a black exhaust, an occasional cough between shifting between 1 to 2nd gear. i leaned carb out prior to this and it still had a black exhaust when getting on it. would have thought it jumped timing but it ran normal when started up again. just took a few cranks longer. fuel bowl has gas in it, filter has gas in it. some rust scales but not that much on the new filter.
any ideas?? though its a bummer iam looking forward to attempting to fix it..lol (it ran great off the flat bed, across the yard to the back garage) really weird.
thanks
james
ps hope the world doesnt end in 1 min, i am looking forward to working on the land rover..
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