I thank you, all the greatest to you Paul!!! It´s now 03.49 am here and time for bed, can´t wait to get up tomorrow and try this out! Robert.
Latest update: Been trying again and again with my carb, but no luck, it starts alright, but runs at very high rpm, won´t start at all with the aircleaner off though, anyway, here is the real issue: when I push the throttle (pedal) it feels like sometimes it slips into something, like it grabs and then releases, and when it releases it drops the rpm and stops... I can´t get it working properly. One more thing, my starter is making very strange noices on and of, kind of "mush mush mush squeal" and the won´t turn at all, and then everything is back to normal all of a sudden, I have not yet touched the carb screw on the passenger side, Is it maybe time??? Any ideas??? Thank you all!!!!
1) Idling high: that could be a normal thing, usually when you fist start the engine it will idle really high until you depress the gas pedal down 1/2 way to slow the engine back down. Have you tried that? 2) Won't start with air cleaner off: so with the air cleaner on it starts, which means the engine is getting too much air to fuel ratio. It needs the air cleaner to correct that air to fuel ratio. Could your choke have a problem? Where did you get the new carb from? 3) Starter sound: well, could the starter teeth be wearing out? Remove it, inspect the gears that you can see and inspect the flywheel teeth. 4) Gas pedal slips: try pulling on the accelerator cable by hand from under the hood and see if it does that catching/slipping thing, if so could be something wrong with the return spring or maybe something is getting caught somewhere. Try those, let us know. Also, as always, double and tripple check your vaccuum lines and look for leaks. And again make sure no leak near base of carb.
1) Yes, I tried the depressing it to the bottom and then half way down when it´s cold, to close the choke that is I guess? 2) It´s a reman carter rbs carb, from (Holley?), well it was very well packed (vaccum almost) shiny thing with all parts moving as they should (again that´s what I can guess from pictures and posts, since I´ve never seen a working one in action), the choke house is set at the first index mark.
I would keep messing with it. Remove it and install it again and then start playing with the fast idle and the other 2 screws (curb idle and mixture screw). See if anything happens. Because that's what I had to do on my carb and it's still not a 100% but much better.
I got it going now, my beauty cranks and starts right away... Can´t really set the idle speed and it still kind of grabs sometimes, very high rpm on park and neutral though, must be the curb idle and choke I guess that is hooking/grabbing, but now it even starts without the aircleaner on!!! Thank you so very much, guess I was too afraid to mess around with the screws reading too much of the holley manual telling me to let everything too be as factory set bla bla bla... Really means a lot!!! Robert.
Great job!! It was all you, doesn't it feel great? So you have a little bit of fine turning to do. If you can find an experienced mechanic friend then perhaps you can have them go over it with you and maybe together you guys can figure out what the reason for the high RPM is. Please let us know!
