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Had my westfield up on ramps over winter to swap the radiator/coolant/oil and generally have a nosey round and I've been trying to get it started recently as the weather improves (until the snow, that is!) but it's having none of it.

Tried so far:

Changing Fuel

Changing Spark Plugs

Changing battery / jump starting

It had new leads and the carbs done last march and the starter motor reconditioned last august.  It seems to turn over but wont fire, but I do get some smoke out the exhaust.  Starting to run out of ideas and the limits of my technical know-how so I wonder if anyone has any pointers?  Could it be the mixture (and if so how do i find out?)?

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Presumably you have a spark at the plugs and fuel at the carbs ?

One thing we used to do when i was testing carby engines and throttle bodies forMG Rover was squirt fuel straight into the throttle bodies and try and start it, if it goes then it is probably a fuelling problem.

Also some plugs when drenched with fuel wont spark, a dry out in the kitchen oven may help !

Sorry i cant be anymore help ! :down:

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Have you had the dizzy out as its possible to put it in 180degrees out. Also struggled to get mine started and the lumenition box had failed.
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dizzy was out last year to have points done but i've not touched it since and it ran fine all summer.  lumenition boxes are only for electric ignition I think or am i wrong?
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yep lumenition only for electronic ignition.  As said earlier r u gettin a spark. do you know how to check for one. (struggling to see all the wording just cracked me laptop screen  :mad:  :mad: )
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I had a similar problem, I had put the plug leads on the wrong plugs, gave smoke out of the exhaust.

I was just not thinking at the time, lol

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What's the easiest way of checking for a spark?  All advice seems to consist of putting the spark plug wire near something metal and checking for a spark between the two however my spark plug wires are all heavily sheathed so getting the metal contact near a metal surface is somewhat of a challenge.  I took a plug out an attached it to it's lead then cranked it and i did get a small spark against the engine block.  I'm not sure what to consider 'decent' though.

I took the fuel pipe off the carbs and I'm definitely getting fuel through it (at a fairly alarming rate but I assume when it's attached the carbs manage the amount of fuel they take in?)...is this a sufficient check or do i need to check if fuel is getting through the carbs (somehow?)

Checking points would be totally new to me (they were done last year by bogg bros) so I might need a few pointers there..

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if its a side exit cap top left is 1 (1 being water pump end of engine)

Bottom left goes to 2

bottom right to 4

top right to 3

Centre to coil  :)

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I use one of these to check for a spark:

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You can always borrow mine if you are near to York

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scott - i went out earlier with full intentions of looking at that then it completely slipped my mind :|  I'll check it tomorrow.

stussysoil - i live just outside of harrogate so not too far from York depending which side you're on?  Sounds like a good offer though cheers - what engine do you run?

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... a few drops of neat fuel into the carbs - or use starter spray down the bodies to see if it fires up..

...if so then a bit of carb spray to clean up the jets - works wonders!!!!

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