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Seems am a Noob or something, cos I haven't said Hi. Sorry
"Hi"
DIR By: John Aird
Date: March 27, 2016, 7:56 am
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This is my first Landy. After much discussion and hesitation I
bought one as a retirement pressy (project) to my self. Well on
a good day am really chuffed, on a bad day I wonder why.
Seriously though am pleased I bought one, it has turned out to
be a great challenge and one full of rewarding moments. Mine is
a 1981 series 3, swb petrol 2.3. with a marine blue/stone van
body. All fairly basic and am aiming to keep it that way. Have
had it some 9 months now and have dealt with a few (too few to
mention) issues but am generally pleased. Gradually and fixing,
replacing and repainting stuff (as one does). The gears are
generally ok, but selection can vary from straight forward to
"we've all gone missing", normal am told, perhaps a new stich
and reverse gate spring would help, before taking any drastic
action. But here is my tech question: The engine runs well,
starts well but runs a little rich. Have a standard Webber carb
but I struggle to see how to adjust mixture with out a carb
strip down: is that so? Have also heard that a 1 3/4" SU
exchange is good news but costly, well the manifold aspect
anyway as a carb should be available at a scrappy: any ideas
please?
thanks ( a noob)
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Re: Seems am a Noob or something, cos I haven't said Hi. Sorry
"Hi"
DIR By: kev
Date: March 27, 2016, 9:05 am
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Welcome aboard, John.
Don't worry about the term 'noob' (New member), and please don't
apologise for not saying "Hi"...
- As you've just done it! :smile1
Someone with a brain may be along shortly to help with your
tech. query, but in the meantime enjoy the forum. :thumbs:
#Post#: 101121--------------------------------------------------
Re: Seems am a Noob or something, cos I haven't said Hi. Sorry
"Hi"
DIR By: hippydave
Date: March 27, 2016, 10:08 am
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Boo dude welcome along.
There should be 2 brass screws on the carb, the higher of the 2
is the idle speed screw and the lower one is the idle mixture
screw. Turn the mixture screw so it does not run so rich and the
other one to turn the revs down a wee bit and see that helps.
The webers can be a bit of bugger to get right but a bit of
messing about with and they work well.
#Post#: 101125--------------------------------------------------
Re: Seems am a Noob or something, cos I haven't said Hi. Sorry
"Hi"
DIR By: niteram
Date: March 27, 2016, 4:34 pm
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Hello and welcome,
glad you're enjoying ownership of your landrover
they can all be a bit "needy" at times
where are you based? as there might be someone local to you who
could give advice
#Post#: 101133--------------------------------------------------
Thanks guys, very helpful
DIR By: John Aird
Date: March 28, 2016, 2:18 am
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Very helpful Dave, I misunderstood the role of the idle mixture
screw (thought it was just for idle) will tinker with adjustment
till it's good.
Thanks niteram, am in Sussex, only a few miles from the
"Gumtree" Landy garage people at Ditchling, so am never short of
real help if needed, but enjoy the challenge of figuring these
things out myself with help from WWW forums (like this one).
thanks
John
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Re: Seems am a Noob or something, cos I haven't said Hi. Sorry
"Hi"
DIR By: NoelC
Date: April 8, 2016, 4:46 pm
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Welcome along John. If you have a play with the search facility
that'll bring up a few threads in Technical about carbs. No
series had a standard Weber, they came with either a Solex or
Zenith ex-factory. The later coilers with 2.25 and 2.5 petrols
were fitted with the excellent twin choke Weber 32/34DMTL
ex-factory - I'm guessing you have a retrofitted single choke
34ICH? IMHO the latter is best used as a bookend or door stop.
I'm running the ACR SU kit with manifold on an 88 with 2.5
petrol and LPG as I got a load of ACR performance parts cheap.
It really isn't worth the ludicrous £699+vat asked for it now,
yes it's better but not that much better. There is an
alternative approach, Pierce Manifolds manufacture a conversion
in the USA that comes with a twin choke Weber 32/36 DGV
HTML http://www.piercemanifolds.com/product_p/P31-001.html
HTML http://www.piercemanifolds.com/product_p/P31-001.html
for not
much more than 1/3 the price of the ACR kit. I've not tried it
but I'm tempted to on the ambulance, the old Solex has been
rebuilt but always seems to develop new leaks every time I see
it. The dry Idaho air drying out the gaskets and seals I
suppose.
I'd wager a decent Zenith 36IV would have yours running much
better with minimal expense, as the factory intended.
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Re: Seems am a Noob or something, cos I haven't said Hi. Sorry
"Hi"
DIR By: Parn
Date: April 8, 2016, 8:32 pm
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Totally agree with Noel
The Zenith is "the ducks guts"
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Re: Seems am a Noob or something, cos I haven't said Hi. Sorry
"Hi"
DIR By: rambler
Date: April 12, 2016, 6:49 pm
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Hello and welcome along
Ian
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