Hi, My Imp is ready to the 1000 miles trip (Chrysler Anciennes #2 meeting) but my friend ('59 Coronet) has some problem with his car: no power, the car stalls at breakaway, very difficult or impossible to start again, seems that engine misses some cylinder(s) when it runs. He replaced points, condenser, coil without results. He tried another carb (new), no results; he put some gas in the carb and starting is always hard. He's checking ignition wires and sparkplugs because it seems that it's a ignition problem. He found that the vacuum diaphragm is leaking (when he sucks or blows, the air goes through). As he has no spare diaphragm what could happens if he blocks the vacuum line from carb (to have no vacuum leak). Could he drive the car without vacuum advance ? -- Philippe COURANT (Pau, France) Imperial 57 Crown convertible Buick 58 Roadmaster sedan - American Car Club de France (ACCF) : http://www.accf.com - Chrysler Imperial France : http://www.ifrance.com/c-i-f - Cadillac " Standard of Excellence " : http://www.ifrance.com/accf-cad - SportsCars : http://www.ifrance.com/accf-sprtcar -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Need an answer fast? Search the 17,000+ pages of the Forward Look Mailing List archives at http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm
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