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<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Wednesday 17 October 2001 19:12, Keith Park wrote: > 65 T3 with stock dual solex's > > Ive sync'd them and have them all adjusted up BUT... my idle will eather > adjust to 1100 OR 750! and of course I want it in the middle... in the > course of using it sometimes it will idle at eather but seldom in the > middle. > > The Opel folk HATE the stock solex's on their cars and one of the > complaints is an idle that is constantly wandering around.. is this a > characteristic of our solex's as well?? > I have never had problems with the T-3 carbs not holding an idle speed. I would be more suspicious of the distributor not returning to the same timing point every time. It only takes a couple degrees of timing change to change the idle a couple hundred rpm. If you have both mechanical and vac. advance, I would suspect the mechanical sticking. -- Russ Wolfe '71 Fastback AT '66 Fastback MT (IT RUNS) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org </x-charset>