<VV> powerglide car hesitates off the line

[Dennis Pleau]

After you get everything else adjusted, put on the air cleaners and then
adjust the idle mixture screws and the idle speed.  It's a little harder to
do, but that is how you drive the car.  It does make a difference.  I
learned this from lclc.

The clicking might be a U-joint.  Check them out.

dp

-----Original Message-----
From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of
Ramon Rodriguez III via VirtualVairs
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 12:05 PM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> powerglide car hesitates off the line

Hey guys thanks for all the help.  Advancing the timing to where it should
be seems to have pretty much solved the problem.  It's like a whole
different car now =)  I'm still having a little intermittent trouble with
the idle, occasionally when I stop the car the idle is really rough and low
and sometimes stalls.  If I can goose the pedal a little without stalling it
it clears it, if I stall it and restart it it is also gone.  I'm thinking
maybe a little dirt in the fuel?  I'm going to try Bryan's suggestion and
see if that solves it.  I did check the plugs by the way and I did replace
them with new in the fall when we brought the car home.

The vacuum advance is now working as intended after setting the timing
properly.

I have another issue I'm a little worried about.  When driving the car I
hear something I can only describe as a clicking coming from the rear of the
car at low speeds with the window down.  Clicking isn't exactly right, it
actually sounds a lot a noise a bicycle might make.  This sound is rhythmic
and changes speed with the car.  I jacked up one rear wheel at a time and
spun them and found that the noise was coming from the differential end of
the axles rather than the wheel ends.  I also found that I'm getting the
same soft click from the diff on both sides so it is likely it's the diff
making the noise and not the universals.  I checked the gear oil in the diff
and it is at the proper level.  Interestingly I think this sound is not
present when the car is driven for the first time of the day but appears
after just a couple minutes of driving.

Thanks again everyone,

Ray