[tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy
- From: Paul Smith <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:46:44 -0500
I feel your pain , good luck on getting it fixed
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On Sep 26, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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