When I pull the choke all the way out, the cam on the choke pushes the
accelerator a little bit, but this little bit does not seem to be enough to
start the car. I have to "floor" the accelerator pedal to get the car started
and I have to push the choke all the way in, in other words the car gets
flooded, so I have to open the throttle butterflies ll the way to let more air
in to make up for the rich mix of gas entering the engine.
I did not touch the choke linkage during the rebuild, I am wondering, however
if I have some sort of vacuum leak.
How can I tell if I have a vacuum leak?
All the small hoses are clear when I blow through them. I have one vacuum
advance unit on my distributor and the plate does move under the points when I
twist it with my fingers. How can I tell if it moves with the vacuum with the
engine running and the cap on? The spring return seems to require a lot of
force to move the points baseplate.
I don't understand it, the car started every time with no trouble before I
rebuilt the carbs, the carbs seem to be to rich with no way of leaning them
(needle all the way down still gives me a rich mix). Could I have a vacuum
leak? I confess that I did remove the intake manifold for bead blasting and
then reinstalled the manifold on the same gasket, was this a dumb thing to do?
If I have a vacuum leak at the intake manifold would it give me a problem with
starting my car?
TIA
Wayne from Massachusetts
1973 TR6
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