76... Thermoquad?
Is a thermoquad a vacuum secondary carb, or a mechanical secondary carb?
Reason for the question is, momentarily opening the throttle when not in
gear usually will not open the secondaries on vacuum sec carbs. It takes
more load to get the signal to open.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "James" <nyb@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:17 PM
Subject: IML: Pop goes the carburettor
> Hallo,
>
> The beast (76 NYB) is finally back on the road after a long drawn out
> winter that apparently isn't gone yet since it's snowing right now.
> Anyway today was the car's mini tune-up, it got plugs, a dist cap and
> rotor. The plugs weren't fouled this year which made me very happy (go
> Autolite # 86!). I had it out yesterday and I wasn't totally convinced
> that the secondaries were opening, I had accleration, but no real surge
> forward when I gave it some gas. So I let it warm up today for a bit in
> the garage, pulled back the throttle; the secondaries stayed shut. So I
> gave it a little longer to warm up, pushed back the throttle, POP!
> There wasn't much of a flash, but the sound was definitely loud. The
> flash (more like a bright spark) seemed to come from the very front
> corner of the carb, and it distracted me enough that I still don't know
> if the secondaries opened, hehehe. So the moral of the story is my sad
> remainder of a carburettor has given me more reason to rebuild, and
> NEVER look down a carb when playing. I wasn't, and I'm glad in case the
> pop had turned into something more.
>
> James
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