<VV> Help - Engine runs worse than before!

[Bill H.]

                                    B"H

JR:  brand new accelerator pumps for both carbs.  Also, new top cover gaskets, new spacers and gaskets above and below each spacer.

Regards...Bill


--- On Wed, 11/30/11, J R Read <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: J R Read <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Help - Engine runs worse than before!
> To: "Bill H." <gojoe283 at yahoo.com>, "Harry Yarnell" <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
> Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 10:51 PM
> What did the accelerator pump cups
> look like when you had the carbs apart? Possibly they are
> beginning to disintegrate from the ethanol fuel and
> particles are blocking passages in the carbs.  Did you
> install new ones while the carbs were apart?  If not,
> give that some serious thought.
> 
> Later, JR
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill H." <gojoe283 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Harry Yarnell" <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
> Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Help - Engine runs worse than
> before!
> 
> 
>                
>                
>       B"H
> Hi Harry.
> 
> 1.  Readings at the choke pulloffs:  Left carb,
> rapidly vibrating between 0 and 15.  Right carb: 
> rapidly vibrating between 5 and 20.
> 
> 2.  The Corvair beginners book from CORSA suggests
> putting your hand over the carb throat and revving the
> engine.  I did that, felt the raw gas on my palm, but
> when I finished doing it to both carbs, the idle settled
> down!
> 
> It's possible that there is some gunk somewhere in the fuel
> passages that is blocking efficient gas supply?
> 
> I'm probably going to pop for a set of rebuilts in any
> case, I've heard good things about Grant Young.
> 
> Thanks and regards...Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 11/30/11, Harry Yarnell <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Harry Yarnell <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
> > Subject: RE: <VV> Help - Engine runs worse than
> before!
> > To: "'Bill H.'" <gojoe283 at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> > Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 7:03 PM
> > No. Gaps at the choke shaft don't
> > have any effect.
> > BUT, this is an interesting test. I assume you did
> this to
> > the right carb,
> > with no real change, right?
> > Sounds like something's not right (lean) in the left
> carb.
> > 
> > Disconnect the chock pulloffs and read vacuum at
> those
> > ports; what do you
> > get?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill H. [mailto:gojoe283 at yahoo.com]
> > 
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:55 PM
> > To: Harry Yarnell
> > Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> > Subject: RE: <VV> Help - Engine runs worse than
> > before!
> > 
> 
>