still having carb issues
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still having carb issues
well thought i had the highboy running better but guess not. went for a drive today drove all over town not a hickup or nothing. made a stop was inside for twenty mins or so and it wouldnt start. messed around with the points to make sure i had spark got back and it started barely. doesnt want to idle now and when i step on the gas it chugs around and wants to die unless i keep the rmps up. i rebuilt the carb last week and also put a new coil on. still new to carbs as for rebuilding them. motor is a 360 with a 2100 motorcraft automatic trans. i dont have the stove pipe hooked up for the choke as the old one was long gone and broken off in the exhaust manifold. i have power to the choke. any ideas what i could have done wrong when i rebuilt the carb. this is what is was doing before i rebuilt the carb and now its doing it again. i can smell gas like its running rich. idle screws are 1 and half turns out. idle is set at 800 rmps. the high idle is not set right yet but the truck starts fine if its been sitting.
MSEE
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The factory electric choke will not run on electric power alone. The electric portion is only an assist and will not kick in until the hot-air stove heats up the choke spring to a certain temperature. You need to get the choke stove hooked back up.
Based on that, I would suspect your choke is closed when you're trying to start the truck warm. There's no heat source to open it up. Check that first.
Based on that, I would suspect your choke is closed when you're trying to start the truck warm. There's no heat source to open it up. Check that first.
MSEE
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You shouldn't have to remove the intake for this; on all the ones I've seen the choke stove pipe is secured to the manifold with a small plate and two bolts. I'm not sure if a 360 would be any different. The choke stove is just a coiled tube, flared on the end that threads to the choke housing and barbed on the end that connects to the air horn via a short length of vacuum hose.
Or, maybe I misinterpreted what you said.
Or, maybe I misinterpreted what you said.
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mine goes to the exhaust manfold. there is a hole in the passenger side. some one at some point broke the stock one off i might be able to get a angle drill in there to drill it out. just not alot of room between the ac box and the manfold.
Tuned
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Wen I Rebuild my motor I drilled the two holes *** close to the same size, and then I bought some hard steel brake line and made new ones, worked out great, but I had the old pisces to match the diameter.
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