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Right the guys on porka arent being to helpful

*I have me carb that is not ticking over, and it dont run right, and when it does the choke stays on all the time

Any ideas, on what i can do on that maybe?



*I need to know how to the roll the arch into be able to maybe put 16ins or 17ins on to the car

*I have cut me springs but they are sliding off the black plates, on the bk, is there anyfink that i can do about it, to stop them doing it, i have cable ties in place to hold and they have been fine now for a few months and they get checked all the time, but i cant afford new springs and shocks just yet so any ideas?

*fitting some door cards to me coupe that are out of mk3 hatch i have a little gap were the door cards dont quite meet, anyone know anyfink good to put in the whole maybe, as they are the bk door cards!

Any help on this matter would be really good

Ps anyone know any good ways to clean up the engine bay!

The carb (assuming it's a Pierburg, and assuming the 2e3 works in pretty much the same was as the 1b3..)
Automatic choke on all the time: Adjust the choke by unscrewing the three phillips screws holding the choke housing in place and rotating the housing. Or preferably, get a manual conversion kit or a weber replacement carb..
Not ticking over / running rough: Most likely to be the mixture badly adjusted in my experience.. the mixture screw is a bloody fiddley little thing and hard to find.. look for a small screw head poking out of the front of the carb somewhere, probably through a hole in a metal cover if it's anything like mine was. Turn clockwise to richen the mixture, turn anticlockwise to weaken it. If you take a look at one of your spark plugs you'll know whether it's too rich or too lean, if it's running rich the plug will be covered in black soot, if it's running too lean it'll be grey/white. Brownish grey is what you're aiming for if it's well set up
I will say this though, the carbs fitted to these things are right buggers.. weber and pierburg alike.. although at least with the webers you don't have to worry about adjusting the auto choke as well..

As for the rest.. I'm afraid I'm not very helpful. Arch rolling, either leave it to a body shop to get it done properly, or do it like I've just done, with a hacksaw, a file, a can of rust proofer and a lot of patience..
The suspension.. I can't really advise how to stop the springs falling off, but I will say that holding your suspension together with cable ties is a bodge that even I wouldn't try, and that's really saying something I'd suggest getting down to a scrapyard and picking up a pair of rear struts to tide you over until you can get it lowered properly, shouldn't cost you more than £15 or so if your scrappy isn't stupidly expensive..
Door cards, haven't done it yet so I can't really help there.

Cleaning engine bay:

* Wash the loose stuff off with a hose and a brush
* Soak the thicker stuff with petrol or a commercial degreasant (petrol works every bit as well and is much cheaper)
* Scrub it away with a hard bristled brush.. a washing up brush tends to do the job nicely, and a hard toothbrush is good for the fiddley bits
* Where the paint is stained by the grease, use meths to take the grease off (wash off with detergent before it eats your paintwork away though..), then t-cut and polish the paintwork.

GroovyCarrot wrote:The carb <snip> the paintwork.

Nice one Groovy saved me an awfull lot of typing

thanx guys, on the help, if there anyfink that u have missed out on, and know anyone that could help maybe then let me know

I wont have any more digs at you about the springs, i think i have said all i needed to say.

I dont think you will be able to fit 16's or 17's to your car very easily, if you can you will have to have the standard suspension because you will get major scrubbage with any drop at all. You can fit 15's with rubber band tyres and have a 40mm drop however.

what u mean rubber band tyres, i have 15ins on it they are 195/45/15

this site may be of help to locate mixture screws or obtaining spares has diagrams of loads of carbs www.gowerlee.dircon.co.uk/2E3type.html

on the shocks front there not as expensive as you may think from the likes of GSF or euro car parts.roughly £60-70 for all four

what u mean rubber band tyres, i have 15ins on it they are 195/45/15

is it lowered 40mm.