Re: IML: off idle stumble

["CHRISTINE & CHRISTOPHER" <cchmaness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

perhaps its your fuel pump?  I had a problem that sounds like yours,  My car had a hard time maintaining an Idle but as soon as I got it going with some higher rpms it ran fine.  the casing of my pump was cracked and it allowed the fuel to bleed back a little at idle.  If yours is the same problem you should have a not so standard odor of gas after you park it overnight or you could just take a look see.

 

I realize that your 70 is worlds apart from my 63 but thats my 2 cents

 

Christopher Maness

63 custom 2 dr

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From: kmoore12@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:17 PM

Subject: IML: off idle stumble

Hi everyone. I just rebuilt my holley 4160 and everything is new and runnibg o.k. except for stalling off idle. It runs great at WOT, apparently I rebuilt a great race carb. If I lightly press the accelerator so I can move a little faster than idle it stumbles and dies.....very unnerving in traffic. The accelerator pump is new and installed by the book....four books to be exact. I adjusted it everyway I could to no avail, I even tried adjusting the accelerator pump cam. I cannot help but wonder if I touched something I should not have or improperly.  I do my best not to get angry but I have been fooling with it all weekend. I read everything I could in the archives like the suggestion to drop-kick it into the nearest trash can. It appears there is just not enough movement to squirt enough fuel off idle.

  Can someone please help before I beat the livin' #%#$!&%# out of the carb.

 

Keith

1970 LeBaron