[Bricklin] Idling question

[Greg Schroeder]

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Greg 0036

> A couple of thoughts:
>
> 1. What is your idle speed?  It should be about 700 rpm ish.
    Right around 800 before putting the car in gear and the AC off.  With it 
in gear and the AC on it is around 600.

>
> 2. Is the wire connected to the solenoid at the carb?  Is that solenoid 
> working?

I have replaced the stock carb with and Edelbrock 1406.  The electric choke 
seems to be fine and cuts off when the engine warms up.

> 3. Have you rebuilt the carb reciently?  I'm thinking maybe some dirt in 
> the
>     idle jets.
I rebuilt the carb last year, but I will check the jets again.  I did have 
an issue with this in the past.  It was causing one of the adjustments to 
not affect idle.  Currently either seems to be working as intended.

> 4. EGR valve incorrectly starting to open.

After seeing all the carbon deposits in the engine before the rebuild I 
thought this would be the best to remove the EGR.  I had done this to my 
daily driver since it was indicated as a cause of head gasket failure in 
that car.  It is passing emissions with better readings than with the EGR.

> 5. Possibly a vacuum leak?

Vacuum is good.  All hoses replaced recently.

> John