hello and a bit of help

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:50 pm

Its vacuum controlled on the 1.3 CL. Did you swap the distributors over? If you didnt its worth a try...or if you did its worth swapping them back!

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 1:18 pm

Gareth_GT_Hatch wrote:Its vacuum controlled on the 1.3 CL. Did you swap the distributors over? If you didnt its worth a try...or if you did its worth swapping them back!

vaccum controlled? I don't remember seeing any pipes goting to it.

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:43 pm

I dunno then. Its not the same as a GT (electronic) If its vacuum controlled there should be a flying saucer shaped thing on the back of the dizzy that a vac pipe needs to plug into. did you swap them over or did you leave the mk2 one on?

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:42 pm

Gareth_GT_Hatch wrote:I dunno then. Its not the same as a GT (electronic) If its vacuum controlled there should be a flying saucer shaped thing on the back of the dizzy that a vac pipe needs to plug into. did you swap them over or did you leave the mk2 one on?

I think it's the same as the gt one, There is no flying saucer on it. I swapped them over.

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:26 am

I thought it was only the NZ that had vacume advance?

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:40 am

DanW wrote:I thought it was only the NZ that had vacume advance?

yup. no vaccuum on mine.
I'm thinking of getting rid of it.
It's a bit annoying now.

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:01 pm

eh? U haven't got one so your getting rid of it ?

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:33 pm

What have you done so far to try and rectify the problem? Plugs and leads? blue temp sensor?

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:38 pm

Ive just been looking at a few pics and yeah it seems as if it isnt a vacuum controlled advance after all. So you were right to swap them over.

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:13 pm

hoorah.
I fixed it.
Was a leak in the inlet manifold.
seems that some of the old gasket had remained there.
Doh.
all smooth running and stuff now. Hoorah.

cheers for the help anyway.

Karl_CLCoupe · Post by **Karl_CLCoupe** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:17 pm

Glad its back together working now. Shame you couldn't have done a GT conversion or similar. Maybe in a few years eh...?

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:04 pm

Wehey! Great Stuff pal. Glad its all worked out for ya. Money well spent?

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:25 pm

Gareth_GT_Hatch wrote:Wehey! Great Stuff pal. Glad its all worked out for ya. Money well spent?

money very well spent.

Looking in to doing a 1.4 conversion if I can find one with the right miles and the right price.