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Start the motor, get it warmed up, take off the long linkage arms and work
very gently with the idle air screws and carb balancer to find the optimum
idle air rates. (Track every adjustment relative to the other carb so you
don't get lost in the variables. The carbs are working more or less
independently at this point, but they affect each other mechanically through
the motor.) Then set the idle rpm and adjust your linkage arms to this.

Got a good idle now? Good start. Now you can work on accelerator pump
adjustments and carb balance through the rpm range. Chokes are last,
usually.

Other people will have other valid opinions and I may have got this wildly
wrong -- it's been several years since I set up my carbs last and I don't
mess with them when they're working right. I don't want to discourage anyone
from working with their carbs, it's important to be hands-on here. I just
want you to know it ain't simple and it doesn't happen fast, even for the
experts.

Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ
'66 Big Ghia

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