happilymarried
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Okay, so the weather is cooling down around here (though it's Phoenix, so that means 40s overnight), and it's causing my bone-stock 84 BII to idle HORRIBLY first thing in the morning. I've been driving it with a known vacuum leak for months now 'cause I just got tired of looking for it, but I'm giving this thing to my sister in a couple months (if it makes it that long) so I'm trying to get it running a little better.
For the first few minutes, it lopes like crazy at idle, and it has a really hard time getting off the line. I've had to develop quite a sensitive right foot to give it just the right couple of thrusts as I let the clutch out to get it moving. By the time I drive 25 miles to work and get off the freeway, it's usually idling great (though the idle sometimes gets stuck pretty high after such a long trip). It still has a hard time coming off the line and I really have to rev it up a bit before letting out the clutch to keep it from stalling.
Under the hood, I can clearly hear the carb sucking air. Is it possible the leak is from the gasket between the carb and the intake? I think I read something once about using silicone gasket sealer in addition to the gasket there, but I know I didn't do that when I rebuilt the carb about 6 months ago. On top of that theory, the whole vacuum system is old and brittle and surely not working to it's full potential.
I'm sure everyone will recommend a Duraspark conversion, but this thing already has 240K on it, so I'm really just trying to keep it alive for as cheap as possible.
Thoughts anyone???
For the first few minutes, it lopes like crazy at idle, and it has a really hard time getting off the line. I've had to develop quite a sensitive right foot to give it just the right couple of thrusts as I let the clutch out to get it moving. By the time I drive 25 miles to work and get off the freeway, it's usually idling great (though the idle sometimes gets stuck pretty high after such a long trip). It still has a hard time coming off the line and I really have to rev it up a bit before letting out the clutch to keep it from stalling.
Under the hood, I can clearly hear the carb sucking air. Is it possible the leak is from the gasket between the carb and the intake? I think I read something once about using silicone gasket sealer in addition to the gasket there, but I know I didn't do that when I rebuilt the carb about 6 months ago. On top of that theory, the whole vacuum system is old and brittle and surely not working to it's full potential.
I'm sure everyone will recommend a Duraspark conversion, but this thing already has 240K on it, so I'm really just trying to keep it alive for as cheap as possible.
Thoughts anyone???