troublesome Meteor

Hi Graham,
Might be worth looking at the float needles in the carburetters, just may be that the pumps are surpuling just enough fuel that she can burn but when the revs. increase so would the fuel and if the needles valves where not setting properly this would let the engine flood. I have a Allsion that we ground run and when we were learning to start her we had big troubles with the fuel system flooding and had the same problems as you are haveing I know yours has carburetters and ours an injecttion carburetteor but to me to much fuel may have the same effect on ether engine .

Just a thought from down under. Cheers Laurie.

V1710

Hi derro, we have a V1710 model 39 serial no 336 which we have striped and reassembled ( took nine mouths to get three pistons out and about 1400 hours of whot you have just started ) and have mounted it on a trailer and take it around airshows ect. It starts and runs well but blows a little smoke oweing to the three bad cylinders. Sorry that I can not be of any help to you except that I hope this may help you to continue on with the good work. Will try and put a photo on. Can not figure how to do it so will email it.
kind regards Laurie.