Cant get my car to idle below 1000rpm and i have the idel set scew all the way back till it stops touching the throttle? any help on this will be great THANKS

 

why do you need to have your car idleing below 1000?

 

I'm sorry, this is with my base timing and vacum advance disconncted. with it connected the idle is at 1500-1600rpm and this is as low as it will go???

 

well, mine Idles around 1500 and i have a 1405

 

Throttle cable length is wrong not letting the carb shut all the way down to idle.....

 

I done this with the throttle cable off but i just noticed that when i spray carb cleaner around the throttle linkage were it goes in to the carb she will stall. it must be sucking air around there. what can i do to fix this?

 

If it's the throttle shaft itself leaking you'll need to order up the bushing's and throttle shaft (if the shaft is worn, too) from Edelbrock.....

 

would this be my idleing issue? that air is leaking around the shaft and causeing the car to idle faster? and is this normal for these carbs? THANKS

 

The throttle shafts should not be a vacuum leak....on any carb

 

Unless your cam is over 310 degrees advertised, you got something wrong...

-- Joe

 

well, my car was having a miss at low rpm, so one day when adjusting the air/fuel mixture, i decided to kick it up a notch on the idle speed screw.

 

Most of us try to go for the lowest stable idle possible.. I'd think 1500rpm would have a safety concern as well.

With that said, after looking at your profile, I realize I got my first fbody years before you were born, so I imagine you are still learning.


-- Joe

 

haha, yeah I am still learning, eventually I will find out why it was having a miss and lower it but right now I am doing the body and the interior.

this is the first car I have worked on, and I am quite proud of myself, with the amount of things I can now say that I have done to a car