Valhallo
Well-known member
I've got three things that have popped up that I'm trying to figure out with no luck so far.
1- I can smell pretty heavy fuel inside my car. It doesn't smell like exhaust, but straight gasoline. It seems to be even more prevelant when I get on the gas.
2- My manifold vacuum doesn't read steady. Well, it reads pretty steady when I adjust my timing way down to near TDC, but anything higher and the needle on the gauge is all over the place.
3- If I have the car in park drive or neutral and I let on and off the gas 3-4 times the engine dies on me. (unless i'm in drive of course, then it nearly stalls out, but winds back up) Would that be the engine flooding?
Anyways, I'm wondering if this is a carburetor problem. I rebuilt my carb 2ish years ago and had a shop tune it up for me. :blush: I thought it might be a sticky valve, so I put a whole ton of seafoam in my engine oil, ran it for a couple dozen miles and then did an oil change, adding a tad bit of seafoam to the new oil, but with no success. All three symptoms are still present.
Any other ideas on what the problem might be or even that it's the same problem but my solution sucked?
Any help is appreciated,
-Zac Hirschi
1- I can smell pretty heavy fuel inside my car. It doesn't smell like exhaust, but straight gasoline. It seems to be even more prevelant when I get on the gas.
2- My manifold vacuum doesn't read steady. Well, it reads pretty steady when I adjust my timing way down to near TDC, but anything higher and the needle on the gauge is all over the place.
3- If I have the car in park drive or neutral and I let on and off the gas 3-4 times the engine dies on me. (unless i'm in drive of course, then it nearly stalls out, but winds back up) Would that be the engine flooding?
Anyways, I'm wondering if this is a carburetor problem. I rebuilt my carb 2ish years ago and had a shop tune it up for me. :blush: I thought it might be a sticky valve, so I put a whole ton of seafoam in my engine oil, ran it for a couple dozen miles and then did an oil change, adding a tad bit of seafoam to the new oil, but with no success. All three symptoms are still present.
Any other ideas on what the problem might be or even that it's the same problem but my solution sucked?
Any help is appreciated,
-Zac Hirschi