The car ran but ran really rough when I got it. Had to crank for a while to get it to start, and it would pop and backfire if you ran it much above idle. The mufflers both have fist-sized holes in them, so it\u2019s probably not the first time it\u2019s backfired.<\/p>\n
The timing was waaay advanced, off the top of the tab at idle with the vacuum advance disconnected\u2026probably 18-20* or so? Pulled that back to about 8 initial, and verified the mechanical and vacuum advance was working.<\/p>\n
Adjusted the valves a bit conservatively to make sure they weren\u2019t staying open from too tight lash.<\/p>\n
Sprayed a bunch of gumout in the carb and that seemed to help\u2026so I ordered a rebuild kit.<\/p>\n
Adjusted the idle speed and mixture, and verified the electric choke is working properly. idles pretty smoothly now, but still popping and backfiring when I get above 1200 or so.<\/p>\n
Siphoned as much as I could out of the gas tank, didn\u2019t look bad. The fuel gauge seems to be working too\u2026 I put in a couple of gallons of fresh gas and a splash of sea foam.<\/p>\n
I was bummed it wasn\u2019t running better so I figured plugs were due for changing too. Local auto parts place didn\u2019t have plugs in stock for it (really!?!?) so they put in a warehouse request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The car ran but ran really rough when I got it. Had to crank for a while to get it to start, and it would pop and backfire if you ran it much above idle. The mufflers both have fist-sized holes in them, so it\u2019s probably not the first time it\u2019s backfired. The timing was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}