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Re: bad hesitation

To: Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com>
Subject: Re: bad hesitation
From: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:43:55 +0100
I had the same problem some weeks ago and it turned out to be a blocked jet in
the carb (twin carb car) causing the mixture to lean out whatever the
adjustment!
Cheers
Tim
Fred Thomas wrote:

> 2 weeks ago I changed both manifolds on the 78 1500, every since then I
> cannot get the car to run without a very bad hesitation in every gear when
> accellerating, except 4th and then you must keep the pedal down in order not
> to have hesitation, I have reset the timing, readjusted the carb 20 times,
> checked the entire system for air leaks and found none, today I changed the
> EGR valve, and, now you know the rest of the story, she runs as was
> intended.  "FT"

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