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accordion89
03-29-2010, 10:04 PM
any carbed people have this problem, my car slowly idled to death and would not fire afterwards, a few minutes got it so start sounding like a 68 VW beetle and died sortly after on a half tank of gas, vapor lock?

Dr_Snooz
03-30-2010, 05:38 AM
Did you have black smoke?

2oodoor
03-30-2010, 07:01 AM
any more details or history on this? from what I read it sounds s to be flooded

accordion89
03-30-2010, 10:12 AM
well it happened alot during winter, stopping upgrade it would stumble and die, roll down the hill to a parking lot to wait for it to cool and then fire it up again after a half hour of turning the starter with no fire

accordion89
03-30-2010, 10:13 AM
Did you have black smoke?


no black smoke, blue when I start up in the morning

accordion89
03-30-2010, 04:30 PM
no black smoke, blue when I start up in the morning

I take that back, ran it with some gumout in the tank, watching the exaust it smokes gray and spits out fluid

Dr_Snooz
03-30-2010, 05:10 PM
I'd say a bad float, but I'll defer to those who know more about carbs than I do.

accordion89
03-30-2010, 05:27 PM
thanks for the input dsnooz

LxAcc510
03-31-2010, 12:27 AM
I'm going through the same thing =(

accordion89
03-31-2010, 11:04 AM
yeah buddy, I'm walking like a big shot, LxAcc510- I checked my local junkyard, $16 for a carb, $30 dollars for a rebuild kit, just figured instead of talking my current carb apart to have one ready, I need a mini meet!

accordion89
03-31-2010, 07:08 PM
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs461.snc3/25341_107399045958327_100000646964266_110577_53960 76_n.jpg

Well, I picked up one of these, what do I do now? lol, jk, but seriously I'm scared! anyone want to help? the car had 182,000 on it

2oodoor
04-01-2010, 05:47 AM
I removed the choke and fast idle pulloff hardware completley, plugged off all lines,put one of the screws back that held something else and bread tie the choke butterfly open. Cranked everytime and no possesed idle issues.
Reset idle mix and throttle stop after that

mushroom_toy
04-01-2010, 10:41 AM
Yeah If I were you Id do a stage 4 vac removal and make it a manual secondary while youre at it.

LxAcc510
04-01-2010, 12:54 PM
yeah buddy, I'm walking like a big shot, LxAcc510- I checked my local junkyard, $16 for a carb, $30 dollars for a rebuild kit, just figured instead of talking my current carb apart to have one ready, I need a mini meet!

I'm just gonna try to replace the secondary fuel filter before i do anything like get a new carb

Goodluck with that though haha

accordion89
04-08-2010, 11:07 AM
I'm just gonna try to replace the secondary fuel filter before i do anything like get a new carb

Goodluck with that though haha

I need to do that, when I replaced my primary the damn hose tore, had to replace the fuel lines, not hard but annoying

as far as pluging up the air lines on the kiehin carb, is there a thread on that? I'm not a fan of figuring things out in washington weather