[Tigers] Idle problem

[Joe Brown]

OK, I've pinpointed the problem.  The spacer I was trying to use is a Ford
part that was on the Ford 4V intake that was on my car when I got it.  I
now have an Edelbrock intake and after taking everything apart and looking
at it closely it is obvious that the Ford spacer will not work.  The sides
are a little wider than than mounting surface of the intake and it leaves
enough of a gap on both sides to suck in a lot of air.  It looks like I
will need to get an Edelbrock spacer to make this work.  I could run it
without a spacer but raising the carb up makes more room for the various
hoses.

Thanks,
Joe Brown

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 2:29 PM Joe Brown <jbbrown1980 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's definitely a vacuum leak.  I plugged up all of the ports on the carb
> and the port on the intake manifold that goes to the break booster and
> nothing changed.  So I pulled off the carb and the spacer that goes between
> the carb and the manifold and looked it over really good and didn't see
> anything obvious.  I reinstalled the carb without the spacer and it runs
> fine now.  I'm waiting for it to cool down and I'll put the spacer back in
> and see what happens.
>
> Of course, while I had it idling I noticed that the temperature gauge on
> the dash was getting over 225.  I'm not sure how accurate that is and it
> never boiled over.  I'll get out my laser temp gun and poke around a little
> bit.
>
> Thanks for everybody's guidance.
>
> Joe Brown
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 10:33 PM Lance Beauchamp via Tigers <
> tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> Check for vacuum leak,. Use carb cleaner , chek manifold and carb base.
>> Please.
>>
>>    Beau
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