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Speaking of which, does your car have idle cut-off valves installed - I do not have these installed on either carb. Should they be? > Did you resynchronise them afterward? - I did not. I will also put this on my 'to do" list. Thanks for the input, Ben! --- Ben Doughney <ben_d@clear.net.nz> wrote: > on 3/6/2003 3:26 PM, William Kunz at > satchel18@yahoo.com wrote: > > > I'll re-check the chokes but I'm pretty confident > > they're wound all the way open. How do I check if > the > > jets were replaced with larger ones? Is it > obvious? > > The main jet is a bit hard to get to without taking > the tops of the carbs > off, but you can get to the idle jets easily. They > are installed on the > outside side of the engine, and can be removed with > an 8mm spanner. I think > they should be g50. > > Speaking of which, does your car have idle cut-off > valves installed > (cylindrical looking things screwed into the carbs > with a single wire coming > off each)? If it does, with the ignition on, but the > engine not running, > pull the wire off each one in turn, touch the wire > back onto the terminal > again, it should make a click noise. If one of them > don't that will cause > your car to die at idle, and either the valve or > wiring is bad. > > > I did adjust the idle recently. I did so because > after > > the engine was hot it would not idle after I came > to a > > stop. I adjusted the idle screws and the idle air > > screws while taking a reading from a tach/dwell > meter > > (600?). Could I be way off on the settings? > > Did you resynchronise them afterward? > > Ben Doughney > > '75 1200L > '63 1200 - Ringo > '71 1600TL > '65 1500N - Val > > http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | > mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com