after £600 and the 5 garage and with the advise off here still cant get pinto to run right so dont think i will put on road this year .the question is what engine shall i put in and is there anyone who is willing to put one in for a fee

don't recall seeing you posts about yourt problems.

also knowing your location may entice offers of help.

pintos are as simple as they get - what have changed from standard to give your problems, and what problems?

BTW there is a 2.1 pinto for sale on here.

Another pinto is the easiest option. And I still dont understand how you are still struggling. There must be something fundamentally wrong somewhere.

not sure why they cany sort it but it wont set up and dont want to chuck more money at it .
and its had mild cam stage 2 head and brand new carb

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Originally posted by 02GF74
don't recall seeing you posts about yourt problems.

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Righto back to basics

Still the same problem, wont rev?

Ticks over ok?

What does it do when it wont rev, does it seem to bog down and chuck out black smoke? Or does it spit back through the carb? Or does it just stumble?

Cam timing checked properly? If its a fast road cam it needs to be set with a timing disc

Compression tested? Should be even across all cylinders

Valve clearances checked - these are non standard for a fast road cam and usually something like 0.25 and 0.2

Try to rev it and then cut the engine without letting it tickover. What colour are the plugs?

I had a similar problem trying to run an electronic ignition coil from a points dizzy. The coil overheats in a few seconds at anything over tickover and the engine wont rev then stalls. Are you using the correct coil for your dizzy and have the proper power to it? (Ballasted or unballasted)

Is your ignition timing set correctly. You should expect to run a minimum of 12deg at idle with a fast road cam. Anything less and it wont run properly.

If I were closer I would come and have a look, but unfortunately you are miles away

David

[Edited on 24/6/09 by flak monkey]

When you bought the carbs did you buy them specifically for the pinto and jetted for same.

tony

i would start with, where are you?

if you put your location in your profile then there maybe someone close to you that could pot round and take a look

Have you ever had the engine running properly? If so what changed? How many teeth has your cam belt got? Early sierra/capri/cortina cam belts had different amount of teeth to the later pintos in sierras. Maybe worth a count.

I'd be thinking about buying another pinto in, easy change and if the problem is still there, flog it again and look at you fueling ,pump or carb!

If its dgav or dgas don't have a return to the tank, just block off the fuel return on the carb (bit of pipe with a bolt up and fuel clip will do nicely) and make sure you have the fuel supply on the inlet and not on the return!!

Do you know if the carb is a worker, try and borrow another dgav or dgas to try...

Can we have some nice close up pictures of your set up especially carb area?

Cheers

Rich

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i would start with, where are you?

if you put your location in your profile then there maybe someone close to you that could pot round and take a look

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Scunthorpe as from a previous post i seem to remember

Mike.

Pinto shminto.

The god of the Otto cycle is trying to tell you something

Scrap the pinto and move into the late 20th century!!!

If it's costing you money (and time) to pay someone to get the pinto running you'ld be better off doing a quick conversion... Zetec??? I seem to remember shelling out £500 to get a Xflow working (only for it to well and truly shaft it's distributor on a long drive)- could of done a nice little engine swap for that money!! For the time and money I could have done a fuel injected zetec with megasquirt....

Then again, how difficult can it be to get it running? Spark, fuel and compression. If you've got all three and yet it runs like a pig it's either timing or a fuelling problem!!! A timing lamp and a visit to a Krypton tuner should suffice...

Pinto's are old and obsolete but very very simple, and from the symptoms you have previously described only about 5 things can possibly be wrong with your engine/car all of which take only 5 to 10 minutes each to eliminate with simple checks and if you can't work logically through those ............ my advice is just sell up and buy yourself a nice MX5 with a dealers warranty.

There must be someone near Scunthorpe that can come and have a look?

I had a look at your pics Rosey and it's a really lovely looking build- well done! Did you make the hood/screens yourself?

Cheers,
James

you would think the car garages could sort it and they cant find out whats wrong so what chance do i have at the end of the day i am a butcher

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you would think the car garages could sort it and they cant find out whats wrong so what chance do i have at the end of the day i am a butcher

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Maggie Thatcher all but killed proper apprenticeships

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The swirly ice cream, I don't know if you know, was invented by Margaret Thatcher when she studied chemistry at Oxford. Just one of the wonderful things she did before she was betrayed.

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Where are you? Im a mobile mechanic and you seem to be easily parted with your cash, £600 and still not right.

Paul

scunthorpe

Can we start at the beginning what is the engine doing ?
will it start and run /tick over ?