<VV> more idle chitchat

[Ramon Rodriguez III]

Grant I think I goofed up my wording and caused confusion,  those slots were
plugged with dirt, not lead or any metal type substance.  As far as I know
the carbs were rebuilt by the guy who sold them to me, he included the
papers from the rebuild kit from Clarks he had used.  I was able to poke at
the clogged slots with a wire and pretty easily clear them.

Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez III
Lake Ariel, PA

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Grant Young <gyoungwolf at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  Ray, based on your findings, you have found a dreaded set of "factory
> rebuilds" that were done by one of the large sweat shops that did rebuilds
> at piece rate for LAPS and dealerships and prestigious companies like JCW.
> They usually rebuilt them to early specs with a misguided plan to reduce
> sku's. Most of these shops plugged just about every hole they could find
> such as the base vents, enrichment circuits, internal vent tubes, etc. You
> might well have a piece of the lead partially blocking an important internal
> passage. (I once found a ball bearing in one). You could find that a passage
> appears clear with compressed air, but you can't tell if it is clear enough
> for enough fuel flow at idle. You are correct that when the fast idle speed
> screw is in too far the idle circuit is essentially bypassed. Checking the
> carbs with a vacuum or air flow synchronizer should tell you whether there
> is a problem in one carb. Lastly, if the two small slots for ported vacuum
> and idle air were plugged, I suggest removing the largest of the two
> machining plugs in the front of the carb (carefully pry with a large flat
> tipped screwdriver) and see just how bad the plugging is. It could be crud
> or an extra ball of lead that disappeared in the process to make them
> generic. Hope this helps,
>
> Grant
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> As far as I know this means I've checked everything, maybe I cleared it
> without realizing it?  What could I have missed?
> One last note, I found that the slots to the carb throat from the "idle
> vent valve system" chamber were plugged, could this have caused the
> problem?  I don't understand why it would, but then I don't understand why
> those slots are there.  The "valves" on this system are fine, the slots
> (similar to the off idle slot) were both clogged, I cleared them easily with
> my wire.
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> Thanks,
>
> Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez III
> Lake Ariel, PA
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Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez
Lake Ariel, PA