I was having troubles with my car idling. I had to get way too far into the transfer slot to make it idle and then obviously it’s way too rich. I got to looking at the base plate and it didn’t appear to have idle circuit holes in the base plate. I looked at one of my parts carburetors and it did have idle circuit holes in the base plate. So I swapped out the base plates, instantly got my idle back and I have idle air mixture adjustment now that I didn’t have before. Any thoughts. The picture is of the base plate that I could not get the car to idle with. Any thoughts?
Do you know any background history of the carb? ....As in, did it run acceptably in the past in another vehicle?
maybe it's still around because it doesn't work, and never got any miles on it? I had a few of those back in the 90s, they liked to leak at the staked plugs, so I tossed them in the garbage. Quadrajets always worked better for me.
It’s what I’ve always had. For some strange reason I like them but have never ran into this particular problem.
The guy I bought it from said he had it on a car for a little bit and then went fuel injection. I’m guessing because he couldn’t get it to idle. It works and idles great now that I swapped baseplates.
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