[T2] Carb issues

[Chris Dreike]

Maybe the whole problem was a loose intake leaking air!

Chris

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:53 PM Dave Gillingham <dave at coronado-realty.com>
wrote:

> My 73 panel van has a 76 2.0 engine that was rebuilt about 40,000 miles
> ago.  At the time dual Kadrons were installed, and other than running a bit
> rich they were great until about 3 years ago.  Then, one side or the other
> would not work properly.  Most recently, the left side partially failed,
> and cleaning the idle jet didn't fix the problem so I decided to remove the
> carb and rebuild it yet again.  That's when the trouble started.
>
> As I removed the carb I saw something fall into the intake manifold, which
> turned out to be one of the small screws for attaching the base plate.
> Luckily, removing the manifold and snorkeling around with a magnet
> retrieved the screw.  But the very surprising part, and the purpose of this
> email is that the manifold nuts were barely finger tight.  Obviously, I
> plan to check the tightness of the manifold nuts on the other side, but the
> discovery caused me to wonder if there is any sort of spec for how often
> the head bolts should be re-torqued?
>
>
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