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Old 07-15-2015, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Teej View Post
Car is my daily driver, so I got to test it this morning. No change. I was hoping the PV wasn't seated on the washer correctly or something. Still runs very rich at cruise (~10) and will be great at idle (14.5 @ ~750rpm) One thing I have noticed is that when I stop, the idle sits a little high, about 1000 -1100 rpm and the AFR is lean (17) until I 'blip' the throttle and get it to fall back to 750-800, then its back to ~14.

May try the spring/string thing this afternoon.
I had an Olds Tri-Power customer in Florida one time who had a "hanging idle" and the issue was the distributor weight springs were too soft to return the mechanical advance properly to the idle position.

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