Journal Entry

I have been driving the B to work and just bumming around the weekends in it. She has been running good, but I had a backfire when cold that would persist even when warmed up if under a load like low RPMS up a long hill. So I decided to adjust the mixture a little. OK so now it ran very well. My wife- wise about things MG- said- OK leave it alone now. But me being not content- this Saturday I thought I could even out the idle a little, so up a little on this carb, back a little on the other, until after about an hour..it was idling Ok but running so rich it would barely get out of the driveway spluttering and popping out the tail pipe! Yikes- what did I do! Soooo, resorting to an old trick, I turned the mixture screws all the way in, and backed them out two and a half turns, to get a base line and to get the carbs even. Then a little leaner by a half turn or so each and all is right in the world again- in fact running decidedly good. To put things in perspective in my FD role we had a motorcycle MVA on one of the first nice weekends of the year and helped load a patient in the Mercy Flight helicopter. So my problems are small.