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- From: louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu (FA)
- Subject: Re: Oh dear oh dear... (Was Re: Carb Questions)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct12.175810.11235@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Reply-To: louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu (Louise Penberthy)
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- References: <ldb9ahINN2j8@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:58:10 GMT
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- In article <ldb9ahINN2j8@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> bhhardy@cs.utk.edu (Barbara Hardy) writes:
- >[.....]
- >Last Monday, right after having watched the depressing trouncing of
- >Dallas by Philly, I was driving home. Car running great. Then,
- >suddenly, with no warning at all! The speedometer slides to the left.
- >Hell, I think. I gear down, it pops back momentarily, and then resumes
- >it's downward spiral, to end at zero thereby leaving me on a dark road
- >alone at one am. My worst dream realized.
-
- How long, or how far, had you been driving when this started?
-
- >The mystery: it will start beautifully, and run, too, until the car
- >begins to warm up a little (i.e. the choke begins to open), and then
- >it acts as if it cannot get enough gas. If I am driving it, it
- >stutters forward (I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to put
- >down that jerking/rRR rRR rRR feeling/sound. I guess anyone who has
- >ever run out of gas knows what I mean.) At rest, it finally dies no
- >matter how much I try to preempt that with the accelerator pumping.
-
- If you only drove it for five minutes, or a mile or so, it sounds
- as though it could be as simple as a stuck choke. Since you've
- rebuilt the carb, this should be easy for you to spot. On my
- Omni (with the same carb), the little plastic thingy that keeps
- the pulldown rod attached to the flap rod (or whatever it's
- called), occasionally hooks up on top of the air horn.
- Correcting the problem is as simple as unhooking it and cursing a
- little at how small a problem can cause such major symptoms. :-)
-
- >Anyone got a clue? I've done the spraycarbcleanerlookingfor leaks, but
- >the idle is so unstable that there is really no way to be completely
- >sure. THere are not HUGE leaks, though I am pretty sure, since when it
- >first starts the idle is quite high and stable, and I sprayed then. Of
- >course once it begins to warm up the idle is entirely unreliable.
-
- Welcome to the wonderful world of the Holley 6520. :>
-
- -- Louise Penberthy
-
- Louise Penberthy | "A student came to me with a desire to know
- College of Computing/ Georgia | the time, and I told her how to make a
- Tech/ Atlanta, GA 30332 | watch."
- louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu | -- Chris, NEXP:Northwest Passages
-