<VV> powerglide car hesitates off the line

Ramon Rodriguez III corvairgrymm at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 14:45:02 EDT 2014


Thanks Bryan.  I will give this a try if the timing doesn't solve the
problem completely.

Ray


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Bryan Blackwell <bryan at skiblack.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ray,
>
> I had some similar issues after the wagon sat for a while - it had run
> perfectly prior about a six month layoff - even after cleaning the carbs as
> you did.  After checking a number of the same things you did, I went back
> and went through the carbs again, and found that merely a soak and air blow
> wasn't enough to get the idle circuits really clean.  There are two spots
> that I hit with spray cleaner.  First was the idle tube in the venturi
> cluster.  Second was to back the idle mixture screws out an additional turn
> or two, then spray down the well that the cluster idle tube goes in.  That
> will clean all the way through to the venturi.  That cleaning solved my
> trouble.
>
> --Bryan
>
> On Jul 16, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Ramon Rodriguez III via VirtualVairs <
> virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
>
> > One last piece of probably crucial information, I've still got a bit of a
> > miss at idle that is not rhythmic but always present.  As stated above
> I'm
> > about to re-check the plugs right now.  If I find anything other than new
> > plugs I'll send another message to update you all.
>
>


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