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How do you set the stock carb????

Old Feb 24, 2002 | 07:06 PM
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How do you set the stock carb????

I guess my car is flooding, and wondered how to set the carburator screws, all that good stuff! Thanks! LATERZ,
Andrew
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Old Feb 25, 2002 | 05:52 PM
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The Haynes manual is based off of the 1979 and 1980 Model year cars. It should be most applicable to your car... More so than it is for us FB owners.
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Old Feb 25, 2002 | 07:06 PM
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I use a vacuum gauge to set the carb. Turn the idle miuxture screw in until a drop in vacuum then out to highest vaccum. Works for me on my 84.
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