jester77
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- Jan 15, 2008
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- 62
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- Age
- 60
- Location
- seattle wa
- Vehicle Year
- 1985
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Transmission
- Manual
Got it done!!! started up pretty well, wouldn't idle but assumed it was just a bit of tweaking- well after 4 hours of tweaking.... guess who's tweaking now
SO, Starts, revs pretty high the settles for a few seconds then dies. Set my timing at 8 btdc but since all the other crap was going on- it fluctuates a quite a bit ( Are there weights in the distributor??) every time it almost dies I just give a bit of throttle and the accelerator pump kicks the engine back up to 1500 rpm and the cycle continues. The only way I could get the thing to idle was with the timing at 20 - 25 btdc and the choke set down a bit on the rich side
the holley 350 I purchased as rebuilt off of ebay- doesn't have the standard lean\rich idle screws on it, it has a (reverse idle adjustment} that you set the amount of idle air goes in while idling
SO, Starts, revs pretty high the settles for a few seconds then dies. Set my timing at 8 btdc but since all the other crap was going on- it fluctuates a quite a bit ( Are there weights in the distributor??) every time it almost dies I just give a bit of throttle and the accelerator pump kicks the engine back up to 1500 rpm and the cycle continues. The only way I could get the thing to idle was with the timing at 20 - 25 btdc and the choke set down a bit on the rich side
the holley 350 I purchased as rebuilt off of ebay- doesn't have the standard lean\rich idle screws on it, it has a (reverse idle adjustment} that you set the amount of idle air goes in while idling