<VV> carburetor exchange?
Harry Yarnell
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
Thu May 14 10:40:46 EDT 2009
Are you using regular gas (87)? This will cause pinging and run on.
As mentioned, overheating will also cause both conditions.
Unbalanced carbs and/or a fast idle setting will cause run-on.
Harry Yarnell
Perryman garage and orphanage
Perryman, MD
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <HallGrenn at aol.com>
To: <arendhuismus at xs4all.nl>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> carburetor exchange?
>
> In a message dated 5/14/2009 9:04:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> arendhuismus at xs4all.nl writes:
>
> I'll check things out, because it starts pinging after half an hour
> drives
> wenn i hit the throttle and this week it kept on running for two seconds
> after i shut the engine off.
>
>
> Sounds like overheating, or a lean mixture, or weak spark or all three.
> You said this was a recently rebuilt engine so I wouldn't think that you
> would have anything blocking air flow on the top of the engine inside the
> top
> cover. Is your harmonic balancer ok--not slipped?
>
> Others will have ideas for you as well.
>
> Bob Hall
> Group Corvair
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