Screaming Metal
Active Member
Once the idle Mixture is correct, .... shouldn't care how its done.... either by turning some screws on the side of a metering plate, Making a boomarang fly thru a hole, or wrinkle your mouth while doing a shot of tequila. All other parimeters should be established to be correct, then and only then can a correct diagnosis be established.
Get the motor close, timing wise, have the correct thermo installed, have some good clean fuel in there, idled correctly, NO Major Vaccum Leaks, and carb set as it should be, then we can diagnose the running rich. Its best not to go willy/nilly changing heat ranges more than 2 ranges on a stock motor. I know he only said one....but that should not need to be done on a stock motor
Before we can tell someone that a holley blue pump is pushing fuel past a needle valve, causing a over-rich situation in the carb, we need to know all else is correct, as per Mike!
This scattergun approach isn't good for the diagnosis, my head, the cars plugs or the motor. If your fouling plugs, how do you know your not washing out your rings? If your washing the cylinder wall down with some raw fuel, before the plug fires and burns it....your removing ring lubrication on the cylinderwalls....and that is oil....from the crankcase.
Almost a full page of posts and we aren't any closer to diagnosing this ailment....
I hear a saying from a old television series, 'The Prisoner', where #2 always says what he wants....'INFOMATION'
Get the motor close, timing wise, have the correct thermo installed, have some good clean fuel in there, idled correctly, NO Major Vaccum Leaks, and carb set as it should be, then we can diagnose the running rich. Its best not to go willy/nilly changing heat ranges more than 2 ranges on a stock motor. I know he only said one....but that should not need to be done on a stock motor
Before we can tell someone that a holley blue pump is pushing fuel past a needle valve, causing a over-rich situation in the carb, we need to know all else is correct, as per Mike!
This scattergun approach isn't good for the diagnosis, my head, the cars plugs or the motor. If your fouling plugs, how do you know your not washing out your rings? If your washing the cylinder wall down with some raw fuel, before the plug fires and burns it....your removing ring lubrication on the cylinderwalls....and that is oil....from the crankcase.
Almost a full page of posts and we aren't any closer to diagnosing this ailment....
I hear a saying from a old television series, 'The Prisoner', where #2 always says what he wants....'INFOMATION'
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