Hi, Dan.
Check to see that your accelerator pump is putting out a healthy squirt when
you first tip into the throttle. A stumble on acceleration can be either
too much or, more likely too little gas from the nozzles.
The clank into gear is an irritation we have all had to live with. You can
make it much better by reducing the idle speed, and by making sure your
U-joints are perfect.
(As an aside for which I expect to be drummed out of the corps, I note that
my wife's Toyota Avalon has an amazing feature in that, on a cold start,
with the engine running near 1500 RPM, she puts it in reverse to back out of
the garage, and there is NO clunk, surge, or other drama at all. It just
simply begins to pull hard without any apparent effort or shock. How do
they do that?!?)
Dick Benjamin
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Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:41 PM
Subject: IML: Carb adjustments
> Hi all,
>
> I recently mentioned that my 83 retrofitted to carb stays on fast idle a
long
> time and tends to run rough while warming up. (Carter BBD, 8381S)
>
> When I mentioned that I had forgotten to hook up the choke heater once,
and I
> could barely keep it running, Dick B mentioned that it should have run
BETTER
> w/o the heater hooked up.
>
> Well, I checked and rechecked the settings, and all seemed OK until I
> realized that the choke vacuum pull-off setting is shown being done
WITHOUT
> the choke heater hooked up. I checked the setting w/o the heater attached
> and wow, was it off. It was WAY to far open.
>
> I readjusted the setting (1/8 inch, with vacuum applied) and THEN hooked
up
> the heater. What a noticeable difference! It runs MUCH smoother
initially
> and seems to have a lot more power and doesn't stumble much. At least
those
> are my first impressions. It was like a different car. (Still has the
> Chrysler 'clank!' into gear though.)
>
> Now I have to figure out why it still stumbles on acceleration when warmed
> up.
>
>
> Dan Wing
> Imp1983@xxxxxxx
>
> Marcy, NY, USA
>
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