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Mr. Breeze said:
Carb sat for a long time throughout this clusterfuck.

How confident are you that our amazing fuel nowadays has not gummed it up?

Shit sits for 4 months in a carb around here without fuel treatment and it's plugged right the fuck up..
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It's 100 octane ethanol free but who fuckin knows
 
I'm going to plug all the vacuum fittings and take a drive once of these days. Would that be the next logical step?
 
89 Fox 427 said:
I'm going to plug all the vacuum fittings and take a drive once of these days. Would that be the next logical step?
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I’d fire it, let it stabilize then do the slow hand over the carb thing. If you slowly start restricting air to the carb & it picks up rpm, you have a vacuum leak.

If you clamp your hand over the whole carb & it STILL keeps running, you have a BIG vacuum leak. lol
 
Curious as what inches of vacuum it takes for your vac advance to start moving. Do you have a hand held vac pump you could slowly add vac to the can and see when it moves? Doesn't help with any of the other stuff, just curious if it would move at 11 - 12" of vac.
 
89 Fox 427 said:
I'm going to plug all the vacuum fittings and take a drive once of these days. Would that be the next logical step?
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Is this the same carb as last year?
Did it run ok/better last year?
If so, maybe undo the adjustments you just made to it on the bench and try it again.
As far as timing goes, if you think the advance is giving you grief try locking it out at 28ish° until you get everything else figured out. Locked at 28° will not hurt anything and provides nice stable timing.
Give the rear main seal a chance to " fix itself " if it's not a gusher.
Good luck.
 
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I'm fighting everything at once. To many chiefs and I'm a retarded Indian.

The vacuum gauge was likely giving me false readings. I had a "T" from manifold going to gauge and distributor. Went direct gauge to manifold and got better info. I also feel like the timing is moving around kind of erratically. Here's what I learned today after plugging vacuum advance, the car was warmed up, driven around the block, 95 degrees outside.

180* water temp 840rpm idle
Distributor capped off
23 initial timing
30 total all in by 1800rpm. clearly something wrong with my limiter bushing. Because it's only allowing 7 degrees.
14.5 afr
9-10" manifold vacuum

I set base at 23 because:
A) car seemed to sound and smell better
B) 25 total seemed low to drive around and evaluate but I'm stoopit.
C) car starts without issue even when hot

as far as erratic timing I need to buy msd spring kit because I can't find mine. I'd also like to buy a non Chinese limiter bushing. I believe it's a light silver and light blue spring in there now.

I need to pull the distributor and see if the gear is worn.

The weights seem to move easily and not binding.
 
89 Fox 427 said:
To many chiefs and I'm a retarded Indian.
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Hence why I am :pop::larf:

Seriously though I have two things for you to consider.
1. I know ya are joking but I suggest you don't put yourself down so much. Its not good for ya to be negative regularly. :wink2:
2. You are doing great. :thumbup:Nothing changes if you don't keep at it. As long as you are legitimately working through the issues trying to learn as you do it, you have nothing to be down about. Every car guy with a spine can respect a guy trying.
I will go back to just reading now. :coffee3:
 
89 Fox 427 said:
I'm fighting everything at once. To many chiefs and I'm a retarded Indian.

The vacuum gauge was likely giving me false readings. I had a "T" from manifold going to gauge and distributor. Went direct gauge to manifold and got better info. I also feel like the timing is moving around kind of erratically. Here's what I learned today after plugging vacuum advance, the car was warmed up, driven around the block, 95 degrees outside.

180* water temp 840rpm idle
Distributor capped off
23 initial timing
30 total all in by 1800rpm. clearly something wrong with my limiter bushing. Because it's only allowing 7 degrees.
14.5 afr
9-10" manifold vacuum

I set base at 23 because:
A) car seemed to sound and smell better
B) 25 total seemed low to drive around and evaluate but I'm stoopit.
C) car starts without issue even when hot

as far as erratic timing I need to buy msd spring kit because I can't find mine. I'd also like to buy a non Chinese limiter bushing. I believe it's a light silver and light blue spring in there now.

I need to pull the distributor and see if the gear is worn.

The weights seem to move easily and not binding.
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Did you notice more oil up top with the new lifters or too busy with other crap ?
 
SteveTX said:
Hence why I am :pop::larf:

Seriously though I have two things for you to consider.
1. I know ya are joking but I suggest you don't put yourself down so much. Its not good for ya to be negative regularly. :wink2:
2. You are doing great. :thumbup:Nothing changes if you don't keep at it. As long as you are legitimately working through the issues trying to learn as you do it, you have nothing to be down about. Every car guy with a spine can respect a guy trying.
I will go back to just reading now. :coffee3:
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I've said that to him before and he puts me on ignore :LOL: There's too many retarded Indians already, be the Chief 🎩

Oh and "Too many" ....
 
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