mysavioreigns
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Wow, David, thanks that was a lot. I will try to answer everything.
First off, the car ran pretty awful when I first got it (about a month ago now). It did the same thing as what is doing now (dying at idle, dying when accelerator is pushed).
The carb was just rebuilt last weekend. what you said about the float, I didn't set anything with it. That might be a problem. The guy that was helping apparently told me wrong cause he said it was fine. It rotated on the pivot rod about 1/4" Now looking back on the manual, it says "Float Level 1 3/32" w/ Metal Float." Not exactly sure what that means.
I compared the new accelerator pump and the old one. The old one didn't look like it was pumping AT ALL, but the new one looks nice and gives a good spray of gas.
Vacuum leak - I think I may have found one. I noticed, when tightening the choke, that when you try to tighten it, it "un-tightens" itself. It is impossible to make it flush with the carb. The new gasket is there and everything. Since there is a vacuum line into that area, that could definitely be a leak.
Another thing. I can't do the timing till it at least runs a little, because as of now, when it is started and idles for about a minute, it just dies. No idea why it started this. I went over there after letting it sit there for a couple days, and the choke plate thing was wide open. I'll bet it's not supposed to be that way.
Thanks again, hope that helps answer your post.
Didn't forget about you 66 Fastback. How do you "rotate the engine" where the rotor is pointing at #1? And I can't find that darn notch on the pulley to match the timing marks. I went all the way around it. Oh well, I'll look again.
First off, the car ran pretty awful when I first got it (about a month ago now). It did the same thing as what is doing now (dying at idle, dying when accelerator is pushed).
The carb was just rebuilt last weekend. what you said about the float, I didn't set anything with it. That might be a problem. The guy that was helping apparently told me wrong cause he said it was fine. It rotated on the pivot rod about 1/4" Now looking back on the manual, it says "Float Level 1 3/32" w/ Metal Float." Not exactly sure what that means.
I compared the new accelerator pump and the old one. The old one didn't look like it was pumping AT ALL, but the new one looks nice and gives a good spray of gas.
Vacuum leak - I think I may have found one. I noticed, when tightening the choke, that when you try to tighten it, it "un-tightens" itself. It is impossible to make it flush with the carb. The new gasket is there and everything. Since there is a vacuum line into that area, that could definitely be a leak.
Another thing. I can't do the timing till it at least runs a little, because as of now, when it is started and idles for about a minute, it just dies. No idea why it started this. I went over there after letting it sit there for a couple days, and the choke plate thing was wide open. I'll bet it's not supposed to be that way.
Thanks again, hope that helps answer your post.
Didn't forget about you 66 Fastback. How do you "rotate the engine" where the rotor is pointing at #1? And I can't find that darn notch on the pulley to match the timing marks. I went all the way around it. Oh well, I'll look again.