You never answered Sammies question about year etc. On my stock 34 pic it ran on the road great but same symptoms at stops. I would back the adjustment screw out 2 1/2 turns, it would run good a little bit then back again. I replaced the o ring on the adjustment screw and that settled it. Another place to look is at anti-disel valve. If it comes unscrewed it will die. .On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:33 PM, <wuzmop@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Plug wires routed wrong! Points are also VERY important, but have no > bearing on the compression, so the comp test wouldn't tell you that. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Biggestdaddyo <biggestdaddyo@xxxxxxxxx> > To: tcb <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 9:01 am > Subject: [tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy > > This seems to have "vacuum leak" written all over it. I would check the > nuts/bolts on the entire intake system for tightness. > *From:* Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx> > *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Sent:* Monday, September 26, 2011 5:51 PM > *Subject:* [tcb] t@p pain and jeapordy > > The other Paul Smith and I have worked to get the bus back to road worthy > shape in time for T@P, but we are getting down to the wie. Here's our > problem. We have a fuel/air mix problem that we can't seem to kick. > Symptoms are a bus that does not idle correctly and Paul has to 3-foot it at > all stops. That's one on the clutch, one on the brake, and one on the gas > to keep us from stalling. The first and easiest answer is to adjust the > idle. The screw does nothing and based on our Muir book, we cleaned the > carb. Now will hold a fairly steady idle , but it's too low. When you > engage the transmission it dies. Or when you rev the throttle, on the way > back down to idle it goes too low and dies. So far we have: cleaned carb > with carb cleaner, cleaned air filter, replaced fuel pump and rod, replace > valve cover gasket (unrelated), replaced spark plugs, checked timing, run > compression test... all is good. The only thing we havent replaced is > points, but I surely would have thought fouled points would show up in the > compression test. > > Any words of wisdom, we're caught between takinging it to a mechanic down > the street for God knows how much moolah, or skipping Transporters > altogether, which really means we would still come in our pontiac and just > camp in a tent. > > Help! > Cari smith > > >