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On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 18:56, Jason Weigel wrote: > No, you are in good company. I too like to swap out things instead of > finding the actual cause. First thing I thought it was was the idle cut off. > It works. > > Im down to the car starting and reving fine. Timming on, gettin plenty of > juce. The manifold is in great shape baring that its heat rise is plugged. > No obvious holes or cracks. Remember I just restored this manifold so I got > pretty intimate with it. ;) > I still think you have a vacuum leak. That is one thing that will cause an engine to run at higher rpm, but not idle. You say you found a bad gasket between the carb and the manifold. How is the gasket between the manifold and the head. Try spraying something flammable around the intake joints. I use carb cleaner, but since you just finished detailing the engine, you might want to try WD40 or the like. If the rpm's pick up, there is your leak. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~