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Strombergs and Colortune

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Subject: Strombergs and Colortune
From: mit-eddie!ames.arc.nasa.gov!elan!jlo@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Jeff Lo)
Date: Tue, 15 May 90 9:58:54 PDT
Well, yesterday I finally got the  mixture adjusting tool for the
Z-S CD175's in the TR-6.  I already had a Colortune and Unisyn, so
I thought I'd see about leaning out the mixture a bit (you could
often smell the gas in the exhaust).  I hooked up the Colortune,
and as I expected the flame was very yellow at idle.  Here's where
the fun begins.  I start turning the mixture control to lean it out,
and I keep turning, and turning, and nothing happens.  20 turns or
so and nothing happens.  5 or 6 the other way and I'm back to the
stops at full rich.  I guess I must have unscrewed the control all
the way.  So, is the fact that the mixture control doesn't seem to
have any effect indicative of carbs that need to be rebuilt, or is
it something mode insidious than that and maybe I should try the
pair that are in the trunk from the parts car.

Jeff Lo
jlo@elan.com
..!{ames,uunet}!elan!jlo


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