Hi, My mini is getting some attention again after 4 years! Anyway here's my current problem #1.
The car doesn't seem to have fuel available when starting. It takes 20 seconds or more of good cranking before I get it to fire up. Once running it is fine. The other way to start it is turn it over using CRC Jumpstart into the carb. I think the two starting methods are achieving the same thing. They are spinning over the engine and priming the fuel lines. If i restart within hours then it starts fine. If I restart the next day then I have to go through this exercise of draining the battery or quirting jump-start into the carb. I suspect that my fuel is draining away from the carb if i don't run it regularly but am not sure.
I'm sure I'm not the first to have this problem but have failted to find anything similar in the forum search function.. Where should I start looking?
(Problem #2. Perhaps related, I find that in the first couple minutes of driving, i can't depress the accelerator too quickly or it goes all asthmatic and wants to cut out. If i press the accelerator gradually the revs keep up and the car doesn't want to cut out. This comes right once the car has done a few trips around the block. Not necesarily a cold/hot thing as I only tend to drive the car after it's been sitting idling after a good 5-10 mins)
Mini 1971.
Was 1000 but now 1310cc from a Morris 1300 with Factory Carb, standard air filter. I think I used my original 1000 mechanical fuel pump (I hope that isn't my problem).
thanks,
Ray