Well got the new distributor and coil in last night. The restart went almost without a hitch. I think I got is stabbed one tooth off and had to turn the distributor counter clockwise as far as it would go to get started. Will attempt to re-stab it tonight. It was encouraging at first, idling strong after warm up (180deg). I adjusted the idle screw to about 850 and tweaked the mixture screws until I was able to get about 15-16 vacuum steady 1.75 turns on mix screws. Took it for a drive around the block and it seemed a little sluggish but as soon as I got off throttle after jumping on it for a few blocks it stalled off throttle and would not idle. Got it back in the garage and it refused to run with out my foot on the gas. I had re-installed the 57 main jets because 62 just seemed to big and when I bought the car a few weeks back it seemed to be running fine with the 57's so I may need to adjust the floats again but I doubt its causing the idle problem. Just don't have enough trouble shooting experience to know what to look at. What might be causing it to not idle after a little hard driving?
Hi, Sean:
I had my engine and carb set up on a Dyno, and they re-jetted my carb because it was too lean. So, I pulled my carb apart to see what jets they used, here is what I found:
Primary side jets are #54
Secondary side jets are #66
If your float level is too high, it can affect the idle circuit; so remove the brass plug on the side of the primary bowl and turn on your electric fuel pump...if you have gas spilling out of that hole, the float is too high, and is easily adjusted by the brass nut on top of the bowl, you don't have to turn it to much for an adjustment either. Then do the same on the secondary side, once there is no gas flowing out of those holes, you will find it is much easier to set you idle.
Mine was too high, right out of the box, and was dumping gas into the carb, once I adjusted that till gas wasn't coming out of the plug holes, the adjustment for idle was much easier and much more consistent.
With those jets, I was running a near perfect fuel/air mixture, of course there are a number of other air bleeds etc...that can affect the operation, as well. but, this could be a good place to start.
Hope that helps
