23 replies to this topic

[bakerboy]

how much oil should you put in the dashpot?

cheers

[blacktulip]

up to the inner tube that the damper goes inside.

[bakerboy]

up to the inner tube that the damper goes inside.

kool thanks a lot

[Big_Adam]

don't worrie about too much,

It will either squirt out the hole in the top or work its way down the carb and be burnt off with no fuss.

[NateDogg2909]

The cap off a 'ittle bottle of 10W40 serves as a good measure, bout half full then pour away my friend.

Nate

[Cooper J]

What are the symptoms for having wrong amount of dashpot oil?

[Retro_10s]

The car wil not pull away easily and will appear 'restrained'

[Cooper J]

Aha!

So if you try pulling away, do your revs go down and then catch up again seconds later?

[Danny Mini 30]

Cooper_J you don't have a dashpot, you have single point injection lol

Also you don't have a choke nor an automatic choke you have fuel injection which meters the correct amount of fuel dependent upon air temperature, engine speed.... lol, I've posted info to sort your problem in your other post )

[nev_payne]

aww bless - he's only trying to get involved!

Yeah Geroge had a near-empty dashpot for weeks (when yes I was very inexperienced)...and the result is as described - where he would normally pull away fairly quickly, it felt like he was pulling a loaded trailer.

[Jammy]

What are the symptoms for having wrong amount of dashpot oil?

Your best bet is just to routinely check, around the same you should routinely check a lot of other things on your mini. It only takes 10 seconds to take the cap off the dashpot, push it down and make sure there is sufficent resistance against you pushing it down.

[Bass Man]

How much resistance should there be, with mine it is more than a one finger push, more a two finger job and goes down very slowly.

I am thinking this is a good thing

Edited by Bass Man, 23 November 2006 - 12:29 PM.

[Jammy]

I'm guessing you've used engine oil to fill it up with? Using a slightly thinner oil (3-1, etc) will give a slightly quicker throttle response, but then the oil will be used quicker and you'll be topping it up more. So its up to you.

It should take a good few seconds for the piston to be pushed down.

[Bass Man]

I certainly am, I will try some slightly thinner oil in there. Thanks

[Retro_10s]

or thin down the oil that's already in there