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Re: [T3] Wont idle.....still


On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:22, Jason Weigel wrote:
> Ok my turn with the hair pulling problem. As some of you may remember I 
> recently took my early single port, side draft motor down to the long block 
> and cleaned it all up real well.
> 
> Well Ive since tried to get it started with it firing but not ideling. Ive 
> taken the carb off and cleaned out the plugged idle passage ways. Put the 
> carb back on with the same problem. So I put a known working carb on. Same 
> problem. I rebuilt the fuel pump. Same problem.
> 
> Problem is it starts and remains running if I feather the gas. As soon as I 
> let off it dies. Re start, it shoots to life then dies if I dont feather it. 
> It dosnt accelerate well eithor. I have to feather it to get it up to high 
> RPM.
> 
> Is my timming off, would it cause this? The trouble with this early motor is 
> it has two marks on the fan. What are they? 0,7.5 or 10?? It also has NO 
> mark 180 deg out for 2 and 4 setting. So I could be setting it wrong.
> 
> Any input?
> 
This sounds more like a vacuum leak. or a problem with the idle circuit
in the carb. Since it does it with 2 different carbs, I would look for a
vacuum leak. Especially since you had the intake manifold off.

-- 
Russ Wolfe
'71 FB AT
'66 FB MT
'64 T34 (not running)
'65 T1 (not running)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org

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