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09-19-2017, 04:17 PM | #11 |
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Re: Quadrajet problems
I'm tending to support the "float too high" or "too much fuel pressure" suggestion. If the carb was fine but isn't now, your problem doesn't sound like a weather change issue. It sounds like a float that's too high (or the functional equivalent or that, too much fuel pressure) causing fuel to splash out of the bowl vent, into the primary venturis. If you leaned and richened it and the stumble wasn't affected, that would confirm that you have "uncontrolled" fuel entering the intake manifold. The car goes momentarily rich, stumbles and then gets on its way.
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09-19-2017, 06:53 PM | #12 |
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Re: Quadrajet problems
To the best of my knowledge Danny Ashley was the first Q jet builder to use the sliding piece that the rods fit through. Most builders use tape or a piece of foam. That sliding piece can move when changing rods so this is an excellent observation Mr. Hacksaw...I sure miss Danny, what a wonderful man....
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09-20-2017, 09:42 AM | #14 |
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Re: Quadrajet problems
Interesting comment on the needle and seat, and definitely a possible contributor to the problem. I was having similar problems and called Dean Oliver, to discuss reasons why the car was so stinky, smoky rich. We confirmed the float setting and fuel pressure were right, and the next question he asked was "You're not using a .145 needle and seat, are you"? When I told him I was, his response was "Get it out of there; they flow so much fuel that they actually disrupt the fuel in the bowl". I went back to the next smaller needle and seat and the problem went away.
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Re: Quadrajet problems
thank you all for the info... got to Talk to Dean this morning and this evening, checked a few things ourselves and came up with nothing... so the carb is boxed up and on a ups truck heading to Dean...
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Re: Quadrajet problems
This one's on the way, via Buster Brown, but we might want to mention there is a secondary accelerator pump circuit. This was discussed in an earlier thread.
My experience is that you just can't take a Qjet that is being booted off the line, and then use it with a 2 step. If your spring is tight and your vacuum break is of the slow variety, you may be pulling fuel out of the secondary circuit. The biggest eye opener for me was to have the driver mat it while watching with the hood open. In my mind, if the secondary flap is not WFO when releasing the brake or button, then consistency and efficiency will suffer.
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Check the fuel pressure gauge against a known good one.
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