Adjusting the idle speed and mixture will improve the idle, but it won't
affect the car's performance above idle speeds.
Make sure your secondary lockout hardware is functioning properly, by
watching the secondary side butterfly shaft. It should not open at full
throttle unless you hold the choke all the way open, but it should open then
at full throttle. If it doesn't, one or more of the mechanical adjustments
on the linkage isn't made right. Review your kit instruction and recheck
everything. You don't have to take the carburetor off the car to do that.
If all of this is correct, review in your mind your assembly of the metering
rod hardware against the exploded view in the instruction sheet, as we
discussed last week. It is possible that the springs are not installed
correctly - this would definitely affect the car's performance.
Also, of course, make sure that when you mash "the pedal to the metal" that
the carburetor primary side is opening all the way - you could have a
mis-adjustment of the carburetor throttle linkage - this is not covered in
your instruction sheet, but is pretty obvious. Full throttle should pull
the carburetor all the way open. If this isn't right, you are also
possibly having a problem with your transmission kickdown, and if this is
the case, please study the diagram in the FSM which tells you how to set
both of these things.
Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: <Imperial59crown@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: IML: The carburetor works!
> I got off work early today so I still had enough daylight to bolt my
> carburetor back on. The car started in only five tries with the carburetor
> all dry. I let it idle for a while and then took it out for a drive. My
idle
> was too high, but I no longer felt a bogging out on start up. I took it
for a
> little drive, and noticed that it was not as fast as it was before. I
think
> it maybe getting too much gas now which is accounting for the poor
> performance. I didn't have time to adjust the screws yet, and bring down
the
> idle, but will do that tomorrow, and see if that makes a difference.
> Bill '59 Crown
>
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