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Offline Redneckchevy

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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #30 on: January 30, 2008, 10:15:26 pm »
Well thank u for that...Im starting to think its the spacer/adapter I never torqued it down ...I only torqued the carb on....And in ohio it gets hot then cold in the matter of a few hours....Could the fact that its aluminum on steel have anything to do with my problome?
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #31 on: January 30, 2008, 10:21:01 pm »
Could. Get that thing sealed tight.

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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #32 on: January 30, 2008, 10:23:27 pm »
Sorry guys if ya don,t like ohio weather wait til tomarrow it'll be different. Never the same two days in a row it seems like.
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #33 on: January 30, 2008, 10:24:57 pm »
Akron....Ill replace them tomorrow and see what it does
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #34 on: February 02, 2008, 05:56:58 pm »
did you find the problem yet?
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #35 on: March 17, 2008, 09:27:21 am »
OK so i let the truck sit for a while..While i got the dash done...No I'm back to the engine...OK the Coolent is a Lil low...Oil smells like gas...The front of the engine under the intake manifold is a Lil wet looks like coolent........And engine still runs wide open...SO...Bad heads and bad gaskits?
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #36 on: March 17, 2008, 10:09:14 am »
If the throttle plates are closed and you have the correct carb base gasket on there, then you have a vacuum leak from another source for it to be running at such high rpm.
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #37 on: March 17, 2008, 10:12:50 am »
Redneck, The heads/gaskets are not going to be the problem to your running at full throttle, there may be a leak or something, but it is not the source of this problem. Go back & read what everyone has posted & think through it carefully. As autorepr,86 Silverado, Vile, Me & others have mentioned, This is a simple problem that your looking at & not seeing, Period! Do you know anyone you can borrow a Q-jet from? Trying to eliminate your spacer rig from the mix. As already said, check the gaskets (between the intake-spacer & spacer-carb for an area that isn't sealing). One thing I would like you to do, unhook the Red "hot" wire on the distributor,unbolt the carb, find a couple sockets to use as spacers over the carb bolts/studs (so you can see the bottom of the carb between the intake) have someone crank the engine. Is there fuel coming out? If you were in the next town I'd come over & help you sort this thing out. Where is Barberton? Lorne

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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #38 on: March 17, 2008, 10:18:32 am »
Barberton is next to akron...So if the intake manifold is leaking it wouldnt make it idle that high? So it would have to be above that as in the Spacer or carb gaskit?
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #39 on: March 17, 2008, 10:58:31 am »
Redneck, What I'm saying is the coolant leak can not make your engine run at high RPM. Now a crack into the air passages in the intake (air leak/vac. leak) can contribute to this RPM problem, however to the extreme you are talking about, I feel there has to be additional fuel involved here also. Lorne

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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #40 on: March 17, 2008, 12:09:51 pm »
Ill check it out better.....The coolent is leaking from the front...Under the goose neck...But not from it.
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #41 on: March 17, 2008, 04:03:41 pm »
Redneck take some pix of your carb sitting on your engine for us. Both sides, front and back.
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #42 on: March 17, 2008, 05:29:15 pm »
Ok...Side to side front to back..Let me no if u see somthing



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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #43 on: March 17, 2008, 05:36:40 pm »
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Re: Help with engine
« Reply #44 on: March 17, 2008, 05:38:45 pm »
nevermind, Vile posted that before I got to it...

B)Is there a gasket under that adapter?