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please help at my wits end and have loooked of the site but nothing like my problem

right my era turbo ildes fine revs fine untill you get into a gear then it gets to about 3000rpm and starts choking and doesnt get any fast untill u lift off and lightly accerate also chokes under hard acceration

and ideas please help

steve

era turbo - not even the mrs gets to drive it

Have you checked the oil level in the carb dashpot? Unscrew the black plastic cap, should be some oil in there, fill it to the ridge. Use engine oil, something like 20/50. The haynes manual will tell you how to do it if you are not sure.

Obviously a fuel issue.

Is the choke going off?,remove dashpot and look to see the jet return up.

Is the fuel regulater knackered?...replace with one you know works.

Are the fuel lines in good order, especially the return?

Are you using the correct fuel pump?..not a ten million psi one from NASA.

JF..

OH...Have you had the plenum off the carb recently??

Edited by giallofly on 5th Aug, 2005.

chokes a good one, sometimes the fibreglass heatsheild can prevent the choke from going all the way home. Maybe the carb is just in need of a good rebuild?

dash pot is ok level timing is out by 3 degrees havent cheacked the heat shield seems strange though cos its been running fine

era turbo - not even the mrs gets to drive it

choke returns fine and no i have never had the plemum chamber off any thought please do suggest

era turbo - not even the mrs gets to drive it

Is it actually choking from over fuelling, or is it misfiring from leaning out ? checked fuel pressure ?
On the other hand is the spark good ? plugs leads coil in good order ? dodgy ignition module ? or are these failing under load ?

Phil.

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This sounds oh -so- typical of the balance pipe being split, or the carb vent solenoid not working...

3000 rpm (as the boost is starting to build)
Chokes under hard acceleration
kinda fine under light accelertion

etc, etc, etc...

yup exactly the same as mine until i found out how to plumb it in properly, so i'd guess at a split hose aswell.

have you tried the coil mine used to do that till i changed it, try the other options first though none seem too hard or expensive.

could be coil, or float valve leaking when on boost, as td says could balance pipe split.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

coil is fine but i dont no where the balance pipe is sorry new to the turbo game

era turbo - not even the mrs gets to drive it

found that the ballence pipe was split replaced but still miss firing but not at bad now

era turbo - not even the mrs gets to drive it

http://www.manchesterminis.co.uk/technical/turbo-carb.htm

Go through that...

cheers turbo dave well i got so pissed off at gc minis(where i brought it from) i told to fix it or ill be having my money back just dropped it off and there looking at it

era turbo - not even the mrs gets to drive it

Trouble is, it's almost guaranteed they don't know anything about turbo motors...

had a chat with the bloke he claims nothing is wrong have sort legal advise told to get a engineers report then sue him for the damage to hav it fixed, by the way the balence pipe was split helpped a little and after the site you posted, it could be the run on valve as sometimes it does run on or am a just guessing?
thanx again dave

era turbo - not even the mrs gets to drive it