I purchased a 1987 FC n/a as a project car, and have fixed most of the problems in it so far, but when I went to start the car, it would sputter and not start. Don't worry the car isn't flooded. So then I tried a towing start. This worked to an extent. The vehicle would only start if I was pressing the throttle down fairly far. Then once the car was started, it would only stay alive if I was actively revving the engine, and would struggle to even stay alive if below 2000 Rpms. The car won't even think about idling. I gained access to the throttle body and found the first set of butterfly valves are stuck wide open, and also that a vaccuum line or 2 is missing from the throttle body. Any suggestions on how to approach this? My FC seems to only want to go full throttle or nothing!

 

Grow tired of your original thread?

 

Yea it seemed to have run it's course.