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Strange high idle, common issues ruled out 140-160 1968

posted by  bmessina on  Tue Aug 11 09:00 CST 2009
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Did you look at my post? I had very similar behavior, even on the timing setup. My fix, after doing a triple check of all possible vacuum leaks, was a different distributor and keeping the vacuum retard hooked up.

RE: That crack - Have you given it the carb cleaner test? To see if that effects idle, therefore giving a (very rough) indication of how much air that crack is actually letting in?






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