Hmmm, was you mixture way rich?
When the same thing happened to me, my car would not idle at all, it would
die. Well, my mixture was probably too lean...
Ulix
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Dave Woerpel wrote:
> Ulix,
>
> Sooooooo, that's why back in 1969 my 68 MGB revs shot up to about 5500 on the
> city streets at 25mph when the PCV clip broke and the top flew off. You never
> saw a kis reach for the key so fast in your life. Duct Tape got me home
>where I
> happened to have another clip.
>
> Just an experience,
> Dave
> Pre-PCV 59 :()
>
> Ulix Goettsch wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Robert Duquette wrote:
> >
> > > My PCV is still springless. However, while searching for 'something else'
> > > in my junk box, I happened upon a spring that looked like it might fit, so
> > > ... even though I believed it to be too firm, I had to try it.
> > >
> > > The RPM went up by about 700 rpm and I thought that maybe I had better
>take
> > > the thing out. So I took the top clip off and the top metal piece that I
> > > was expecting to fly off due to the heavy compressed spring ... didn't.
> > > (car still running.)
> > >
> > > So, all this to ask how the PCV really works.
> > >
> > >
>
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