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Offline 74 C-10 Shorty

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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #30 on: May 25, 2013, 08:12:08 am »
It's not leaking and it's pumping fuel don't worry about it, one thing at a time just do a "complete" tune up first.
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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #31 on: May 25, 2013, 08:28:08 am »
Thanks for the help buddy. I will let you know when I get the plugs and wires in and take er for a rip. I hope I wont be cutting 40 mph wind today
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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #32 on: May 25, 2013, 08:52:21 am »
Anytime glad to help, don't forget with HEI plugs are gapped at .045.. And check cap and rotor I'm sure they need replacing too.
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« Reply #33 on: May 25, 2013, 04:56:23 pm »
Best I could find was champion wires and Bosch platinum plugs
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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #34 on: May 25, 2013, 05:40:18 pm »
These champions should be better then these Whitaker plug wires that's on it now. They look OLD wondering if they were from factory
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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #35 on: May 25, 2013, 08:16:26 pm »
Couldn't find Autolite???, and here I thought I was in a hick town that didn't have anything,LOL, you have the small tapered seat plug right?, and nobody had 144's???, Bosh will do fine though.....

After 15 years under the hood anything looks old,lol, new ires should do wonders for it...
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« Reply #36 on: May 25, 2013, 10:11:38 pm »
I googled these Whitakers. They are vintage 60s and 70s wires
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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #37 on: May 27, 2013, 10:35:12 am »
Sooo, got er all tuned up yet?.. :D
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« Reply #38 on: May 27, 2013, 01:25:59 pm »
Just put the plugs in. They all had oil on them lightly and black carbon deposits and #7 had real bad oil. Since I put my new carb on the cold idle sucks. How can I fix that
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« Reply #39 on: May 27, 2013, 01:27:08 pm »
If I press the choke open with my fingers it runs not bad cold
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« Reply #40 on: May 27, 2013, 01:29:55 pm »
Once it warms up abit it runs beautiful
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« Reply #41 on: May 27, 2013, 01:41:49 pm »
Nope still there.
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Offline 74 C-10 Shorty

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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #42 on: May 27, 2013, 01:48:12 pm »
Sounds like choke adjustment, is it electric or heat coil from the intake???..
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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #43 on: May 27, 2013, 02:05:55 pm »
Heat coil. The hesitation is still there during accelerating
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Re: Quadrajet Carberator
« Reply #44 on: May 27, 2013, 06:17:25 pm »
Take that cover off and clean out the cavity and make sure the coil is not broken and clean, crud builds up in there over time and can make it non functional.... Is your timing right??, set total at 36* and all in by 2800-3000rpm, if it still stumbles then it's the accelerator pump, if it's 15yrs old  then odds are the carb could stand to be freshened up too..
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