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Backfiring |
BfloRandy |
Apr 10 2017, 06:02 PM
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Dimwit Extraordinaire Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: 20-September 14 From: Buffalo, NY Member No.: 17,927 Region Association: North East States |
Happy Spring, aka fix your car so you can drive it all summer!
Having an issue tuning my Weber 40's. The car does run, and idles quite well, sounds smooth and even. If I rev beyond 3k, I get backfires. Starts fine too. Ordinarily I would assume it's a simple matter of resetting and resyncing. Passenger side carb is as it always has been, fine. Mix adjustment screws work normally, idle adjustment also. I see the squirt from the accelerator jets. Driver side, not so much. It's getting gas. For some reason, the mix screws have little to no effect. This is on BOTH cylinders. The only time I notice any change in the engine's sound is if I back them way way out, then I get backfiring and carb throat sneezing. Otherwise, I can have them set just about anywhere, including fully seated, and there is no difference. I've pulled the carb off, (three times now) torn it down and blown everything out a couple of times already. I did see some blockage in the idle jets and mains before I blew them out. I also noticed that I didn't see any squirt from the accelerator jets. I tore it down again, and fiddled with the pump (new last spring) and reassembled it. Accel jets now appear to work normally. It doesn't at all help that my kids decided to reorganize a ton of things, and I now can't find my Weber manual. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif) Can anyone help? Thanks! |
ThePaintedMan |
Apr 27 2017, 07:29 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,886 Joined: 6-September 11 From: St. Petersburg, FL Member No.: 13,527 Region Association: South East States |
Okay, this one might seem out there, but it's worth a shot.
On my car I had replaced the pushrod tube seals, but I didn't get the retainer wire in correctly. A couple thousand miles down the road, I had a similar backfiring scenario, except it was only cylinder #3. It wasn't until I pulled the motor that I realized the wire had rubbed a groove into the pushrod, and put just enough tension on it that it would hold the valve closed (or perhaps open) at high rpms. Just a thought, but glad you at least got the mixture screws working. |
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