recently i purchased a 77 fiat spider 124. its in pretty rough shape but it ran (poorly) so i decided to go for it mainly because it was only 600 dollars which for me was a steal.
i took it home and the first thing i decided to do was rebuild the carb. turns out there were two completely blocked ports. bad part though, i did mark the lines and the carb so i know where they went, but the carb cleaner took all the markings off so i had to pretty much guess. if anybody has any experience or a manual that would be great.
it also has new distributor cap, plugs and wires.
things that need to be fixed :
-seems like a lot of smoke from the tail pipe
-lots of small backfires from the tail pipe
-idles rough and spits and sputters
-cant adjust the idle set screws because they literally do nothing
-when it does eventually die (and it does every few minutes it running) it stutters real bad and backfires out the carb
-after it seems to stabilize, if i press the throttle, after it revs down it will die.
i took a video of the carburetor with the car running so maybe you guys can help:
http://youtu.be/p51FrfDfIQs
any help on this would be greatly appreciated. i think the timing may be off but i have no idea how to adjust it. let me know if you have any ideas!
thanks!
also it would be a great help if anyone had a repair manual. i looked in the download section buy my model wasnt even up there
i took it home and the first thing i decided to do was rebuild the carb. turns out there were two completely blocked ports. bad part though, i did mark the lines and the carb so i know where they went, but the carb cleaner took all the markings off so i had to pretty much guess. if anybody has any experience or a manual that would be great.
it also has new distributor cap, plugs and wires.
things that need to be fixed :
-seems like a lot of smoke from the tail pipe
-lots of small backfires from the tail pipe
-idles rough and spits and sputters
-cant adjust the idle set screws because they literally do nothing
-when it does eventually die (and it does every few minutes it running) it stutters real bad and backfires out the carb
-after it seems to stabilize, if i press the throttle, after it revs down it will die.
i took a video of the carburetor with the car running so maybe you guys can help:
http://youtu.be/p51FrfDfIQs
any help on this would be greatly appreciated. i think the timing may be off but i have no idea how to adjust it. let me know if you have any ideas!
thanks!
also it would be a great help if anyone had a repair manual. i looked in the download section buy my model wasnt even up there