27-03-2018, 07:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 27-03-2018, 07:52 AM by Thowdfella.)
Thanks for that Tony. Yes all around 70 but that's just on the starter motor and maybe before the oil is fully circulating. From what I remember in my youth they should be 14.7 times the compression ratio which is 6/1 so should be 84 on a perfect engine when running. Even if a bit low, they should fire at that I would have thought.
Thanks for that John - you are right, we do get mixed up in using the correct terminology. In my case, The strangler valve is a very thin piece of spring steel which should be closed with the engine stopped but which the suction from the engine sucks it open when running. When you take the strangler off the shaft and turn it over, there is a guide post around a cut out in the strangler valve and it was fouling on it and so stuck open. when I tried to free it it broke in two so now I have a much bigger hole!
I am struggling to find a replacement so can I just seal the "hole" by aralditing a circle of metal over it? As I understand it - later versions had a solid brass strangler anyway. I would have liked to add a photo but cannot find a way of doing it.Does anyone know how to do it
Thanks for that John - you are right, we do get mixed up in using the correct terminology. In my case, The strangler valve is a very thin piece of spring steel which should be closed with the engine stopped but which the suction from the engine sucks it open when running. When you take the strangler off the shaft and turn it over, there is a guide post around a cut out in the strangler valve and it was fouling on it and so stuck open. when I tried to free it it broke in two so now I have a much bigger hole!
I am struggling to find a replacement so can I just seal the "hole" by aralditing a circle of metal over it? As I understand it - later versions had a solid brass strangler anyway. I would have liked to add a photo but cannot find a way of doing it.Does anyone know how to do it