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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~