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Re: Smoke

To: "mgs@autox.team.net" <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>,
Subject: Re: Smoke
From: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@iname.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 21:48:08 +0000
On Fri, 15 May 1998 21:27:02 -0400, Philip Hubbard wrote:

>Ok, I went back down to the garage and restarted the car.  After a bit it
>starts to smoke.  The car is much harder to start than before I began
>working on it and it has a hard time running at any kind of lower idle
>speed.  Also, there is an intermittant popping sound coming from the carbs.
>
>It's odd.  I didn't really do anything to the carbs except for work on the
>float bowl assembly especially around the area where the hose from the jet
>comes into the bowl.  Still, I can imagine that in putting it back on I
>messed up the idle settings.  I don't mind tinkering with the adjustments
>like the idle screws, but the smoke concerns me.  I don't want to burn
>anything up.
>
>Any ideas welcome.  I think I'll sit back and give this one a think and see
>if anyone else has ideas on what should be checked first.
>

I'm not an expert by any means, but it sounds to me like your mixture is too 
rich.



Andrew Lundgren
Lundgren@iname.com
http://www.itwest.net/~lundgren


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