Essex v6 help needed.

[Spunagain]

Pop off the Carb and check that the inlet maniforld has the W shaped piece of metal held in with 2 tiny screws which helps meake an even mixture to go to all 6 cyliners. I runs crap without one and if it is a rebuild they can get "lost"

Regards
Spunagain

[ol' dirty]

Ribol said:

ol' dirty said:

If you don't think it's the carb, then pull the rotor arm off the shaft & check the cam lobes for wear- i.e checking that the points open on each of the 6 lobes.

Even if there is wear on the distributor shaft isn't it highly unlikely the wear will happen to be on all three cylinders on that bank only?

this is true...but i'm clutching at straws man!

[ol' dirty]

Spunagain said:

Pop off the Carb and check that the inlet maniforld has the W shaped piece of metal held in with 2 tiny screws which helps meake an even mixture to go to all 6 cyliners. I runs crap without one and if it is a rebuild they can get "lost"

Regards
Spunagain

Do you have a picture of this 'w' shaped piece, I can't remember seeing it on mine.
All I have is a black Spacer with 2 holes in.

BTW, your old Scimmie is a near match for mine

[Spunagain]

Sorry I don't, it stretches across the entrance to the inlet manifold with the 2 points of the W pointing into the manifold. It is a strip of bit metal about 1cm wide.

If it is missing this could be an alternative:

http://www.scimitarcars.org.uk/Gauzes.htm

Hope this helps!

[Taggers]

Doesn't it (;like everything else) go front to back, not side to side?

If you get one plug lead wrong, you will get two wrong. It is then very easy to get the other one wrong as well.

It's either that or a really, really shot head gasket. I know what my money's on.

[dhutch]

ferobert said:

Hello, Im currently rebuilding a Hensen M30 kitcar running an essex v6.

A decade has passed, but I have just found this thread reading about the Essex V6, but absolutely love the looks of the Hensen M30.

Do you still have the car?


Cheers. Daniel.

[RobVer]

Hi

Did you ever solve your problem?
I have EXACTLY same problem with my Scimitar. Runs fine on left bank, but poorly (cold pipes) on right.
Sparks are good, all in right order, all checked individually with tester, and all compressions good too. (all approx 9.25 bar.)
Must surely be the carb. I have the proper 'W' plate.
Hmmmmm

[dhutch]

Its been 12 years, but it might be worth an email to the OP to remind them of the thread, if they still use that address.

Would be very interesting to know what the outcome of the engine and almost more so, the car.


Daniel

[too fast]

hohohoho.... I had the same problem and have just solved this on my Scimitar -
1 and 6 were firing fine, so I pulled the other 4 leads out and replaced them one by one into the socket that made the engine note go up. When all 6 were in, it ran perfectly, but the firing order is 123456 instead of 142536 !!! This means the crank and cam have been changed - why on earth would someone do that?

[too fast]

or I got the cylinder numbering wrong - ford essex is 123 right hand bank and 456 left hand bank from the front, as opposed to 1 rh/fr, 2lh/fr,, 3 rh/mid etc.
lol