Thread: On the side of the road again, any help would be wonderful!!

Duplicate post! Sorry!

It just about has to be something fairly simple from the symptoms. The burnt points suggest either the capacitor or the wrong coil - an eight volt one designed for use with a ballast resistor. Other possibilities include a loose connection in the low tension electrical circuit, of simply dirt in the carburetter (one I had not too long ago was the paper element in the fuel filter just before the carburetter started to disintegrate!).

Hope that helps.

John

You hosers are giving up way too easy, eh.

Seriously, the 2&1/4 petrol is one of the easiest engines to keep running. I'll bet a little bit more effort would sort it out. It's really just a matter of replacing all the ignition parts, (with the right bits, not the common dodgey ones), making sure the Zenith 36IV carby is refaced where they warp, and then dealing with vacuum leaks and whatnot.

If you want to see WA properly you'll need a car, anyway. It's hopeless trying to get around by bus or whatever it is that non-car owners do with themselves.

Originally Posted by TravelingCanadian

Hey guys, sorry it has taken us so long to get back on here, but we have been trying to do more of the traveling thing and less of the modern Internet thing!

So just to fill you in on a few details, on our last day in Adelaide before heading onto the train we ran into a number of problems, first our battery wouldn't hold enough charge to charge up the coil, thus run.... Luckly across the street was a shop that had the right battery, now that we had tht fixed it was still barely running, back firing like no ones business, again we were forced to pull over, we noticed that our points were badly burnt down and that that could have been the problem... I jumped into a taxi, got a ride to pcb land rovers where they had a spare, taxied back, installed the new points.... It ran only slightly better..... But we had only 45 min left to load our truck onto the train... So naturally we headed for the train station, and by a stroke of luck we got there in time (not vary easily mind you) and they took our truck and loaded it up..

Once we got to Perth how ever, they couldn't get it started to unload from the train and we had to resort to pushing it off the train... We got it running but again it was not running right, we reset the tappets, re-gapped the points, but still are having trouble with it as soon as it tries to runs under load...

So we quickly went over the basic stuff like checking plugs and wires, inspected the fuel filter...

Still to no avail, if we were at home and I had my garage with all the tools and spare time to work on her say after work or something, I'd be treating it like a puzzle and would mind, how ever since we are trying to travel and be tourists with a loose schedule and tight budget this is just not working out for us all that well which led to the gum tree ad.

If anyone has any pointers on getting this things running well then we'd be happy to hear them!

Thanks for all the help and support guys!

When you changed the points did you change the condensor as well, if not change the condensor. If still not going try another coil, Regards Frank.

Hi there TravelingCanadian,

I haven't got much experience with the older landies but you are more than welcome to pull into my garage and use the basic tools I have. We're up in Joondalup, northen suburbs. I think if you can spend some time with it without being rushed you might find you'll be able to get the problems sorted.

PM me if you're interrested.

Cheers, Jurgens.

Very kind offer Jurgens.

But...with the luck these Canucks are having, - bet they're staying down at Rockingham.....

Ignition is easiest to fix, - Get a nice fat spark happening at the right time..and the rest should follow.

Failing that, a Shaman and a chook's entrails.....

G'day Travelling Canadians

A Series 3 with the polution gear removed?,the timing for a pollution controled vehicle is 6Deg AFTER TDC, a non-pollution vehicle is 6Deg BEFORE TDC,reset the timing and that should fix the poor preformance and also the thirst, remembering that the Zenith carby is OUT = rich IN = lean,did you clean the bottom of the head bolt threads,as often if there is crud in the bottom of the threads then the bolts will tighten on the crud and leave the head below tension in that area, (I have had to correct this on 2.25 motors a few times.

cheers

Keep us posted on your progress/woes... gives us a better chance to help when we find you on roadside, again.

Anyone else got a Dwell-Angle meter ? - easier to set points with that than a feeler gauge, IMHO.

Which end of town are you staying/stranded in ?
Cheers!