Tuning in 2bbl 352

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Feb 8, 2012 | 11:53 PM

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4inchlovin

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There is a car guy here in town who is def. Everyone around takes their carbed vehicles to him to adjust their timing and idle/mixture he does it all by the feel of how its running. Useless info i know just a cool tid bit

Feb 9, 2012 | 07:01 AM

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Oh there's a deaf guy at my work... maybe he can do it????? Lol

Feb 9, 2012 | 05:20 PM

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HAHAHA sure thing

Feb 9, 2012 | 07:44 PM

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No expert, but I had similar issues that turned out to be the gasket under the phenolic carb spacer. The bad gasket let air in. Check under the carb and under the spacer between the carb and manifold, if any. One way to check for this is to spray some carb cleaner around the gasket area while it's running. That will temporarily stop the air leak and it will start to idle faster.

Feb 9, 2012 | 09:07 PM

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If you have a phenolic carb spacer the lower gasket should have a tab that sticks out in the back. It took me 2 months to figure that out.

Feb 12, 2012 | 04:46 AM

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Ok I had a vacume leak under the carb, fixed it. I have found that if I manually opperate the butterfly valve on the top of the carb it will run great. Is the valve supposed to open and close with the throttle? Mine stays wide open when the choke is disengaged.