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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 21:30 -0700, Scott Taylor wrote: > On Jun 26, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Keith Park wrote: > > > When you open the throttle fully it sticks open, the left carb on the > > crate will > > lodge in the fully open position. What happens is that the lever > > passes > > over the straight position and back the other way so the spring > > actually > > starts to hold the throttle lever open rather than trying to close it. > > I used to have all kinds of problems with my old 1500S Squareback's > linkage until I followed Elfrink's advice and reset the left rod to > 342mm and the right one to 99mm (102mm up to 10/64 according to > Elfrink). It made a huge difference. Apparently the car had a lot of > improvisational carb adjustments over the years. > The carbs on my 64 T-34 are all original. I will get a picture of the carbs tomorrow night. This will show how the links on the carbs were set up originally. This engine only has 40K miles on the carbs, so I doubt that they have ever been messed with. -- russw@classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~