[VB] Carb adjustment help

[Ric Jablonski]

Not everyone replies to the lists, so have a bunch of other trouble
shooting advice.

Looking at the float was mentioned more that once, so I looked at that.

When placed in gas, the float looked like an iceberg with only about 5%
above the fluid line. I found an old pict in my stash and took the float
out and let it soak in gas for 2 hours and it floated on the surface just
fine. I took a weight and actually held it under the gas for  a couple of
hours and it came to the top just fine.

All back together now and seems much better. We will see.

Thanks for all the input and advice!



On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Ric Jablonski <ricjablonski at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Carb adjustment help
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> Bus: 71 camper
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> Engine 1600 SP
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> 009 dizzy
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> Condition: running rich and black smoke.
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> Last week I made to HCBF by a hair. 10 mpg and Cwis Slaymaker behind me
> says I am blowing black smoke. Poor power on hills, 2nd gear a few pulls
> where Cwis said he only needed 3rd.
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> Replaced plug wires, condenser, plugs, cap, rotor (tune up).  Set dwell
> at 50, had to set points at .013  to get dwell right. Timing set to 5
> degrees BTDC static, advance looks good at 29 degrees at 3000 + rpm. Plugs
> gaps set. Compression 100 all around .
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> All old plugs were BLACK and sooty.
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> Valves were good. One was off .001 and reset.
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> I need some advice on carb adjustment at this point. Everything else
> “seems dialed in”.
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> Thanks for any help!
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