Thanks. I'm going trhough everything simple at the top - timing, carb, vac leakes, plugs, compression, etc.. Hopefully I'll find something obvious.
I did set timing back in the spring and fitted limiters to the distributor. With vac plugged the car idled well in neutral at 900rpm with20BTDC timing and at about 750rpm in drive. The limiters are set to 14degrees. The mechanical advance starts at about 1100rpm and reaches 34 (the limiters hold it there, of course) at just before 3000rpm. The car drives well, pulls easily from a standing start, responds well to throttle including enough to kickdown. It also fires right up when restarting the hot engine which has been a problem before. It just seems to use too much fuel - c. 8mpg (Imperial) in country driving.
David
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