BBD's are notorious for accelerator pumps going bad,they can be bought
separately for a couple of bucks,and if you're careful with the gasket, you
can usually replace them without buying an entire carb kit...
Chris 72 Lebaron
71 Lebaron retired due to extreme rust
65 Sport Fury Convertible
Several Dodge Chargers in various stages of decay
----- Original Message -----
From: <Imp1983@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 12:11 PM
Subject: IML: Carb jitters
> Hi,
>
> I have been having some minor problems with my carb on a retrofitted '83.
>
> It is the factory Carter BBD, 8381S, 2bbl. I rebuilt it about 5 years
ago.
> Now I'm starting to get a lot of stumbling on acceleration, especially
when
> cold. Not too bad when warmed up.
>
> I tried Dick Benjamin's trick of slowly moving a piece of cardboard over
the
> intake and lo and behold when the carb was about 7/8ths blocked off, the
rpms
> increased about 50 and the idle smoothed out.
>
> I have checked all the rubber hoses (I think) and they seem to be fine.
Any
> ideas where else the leak could be? I was thinking of re-tightening all
the
> carb screws and mounting bolts.
>
> Dan Wing
> Imp1983@xxxxxxx
>
> '83 Imp, beige, wire wheels, factory carb.
>
> P.S. Will it hurt anything to add some (blue grade) thread-locker to the
> carb screws?
>
>
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