[T3] More miles on the Crate...

[Keith Park]

I tried checking the sync today, its still looks good.  Its running pretty
well now but still has some slight hesitation on acceleration at times and
it still isn’t as smooth as Id like at steady throttle, its still missing
just a bit.  Im enjoying it but boy, whenever I look over at the dash there
ARENT ANY GAUGES THERE!  Its darn tough living on a couple idiot lights...
Im just not used to this!

Keith


Top Notch Restorations
topnotch at nycap.rr.com 
http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
71 Squareback "Hothe"
65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
87 golf "Winterat"
93 RX7 "Redstur"


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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Brian Fye
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 11:11 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] More miles on the Crate...

I'm going to suggest that your butterflies are opening at a very slight
difference of pace and one side is hunting for that happy place.
Does the car accelerate okay?  Does it drive okay?  If so, put the gauges
away and enjoy the car!
Love ya my brother, but you need to just enjoy it...


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Keith Park <topnotch at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Still missing this morning, all throttle levels, after replacing the
> points,
> condenser and retiming it.  Its been starting pretty well but  unlike the
> Notch you have to start it with the throttle wide open
> And then quickly let up so you don’t rev it.
>
> Until I got to the Bank
>
> Last year, the one spot it refused to restart hot was the Bank, and this
> morning in the same drive in lane it didn’t want to start eather!  After
> some
> Cranking and a backfire that probably had everyone in the bank hit the
> floor
> it lit, and of course started fine after that.
>
> Got home, found that one of the spark plug recepticles was wide open
 (it
> wasn’t last fall) and that sure could do it, also found the coil wire was
> open but
> That was only a bad connection between the wire and the spike on the
> connector, not a problem currently.  Tried it, better, but still bad.
>
> Changed the plugs,  still not any better but the old plugs were as clean
> and
> white as a vanilla shake, so its not been running rich anyway

> So I opened up the air volume screws another half to ¾ turn from where the
> sync procedure suggested they be, THAT helped!
> (I TRIED not to blame the carbs!)
>
> Its much smoother now, the idle is smooth, but its still not “Fuel
> injection
> smooth”  (sorry, had to get that in there)
> It feels like it has a slight intermittent miss under light to moderate
> throttle and opening the air jets up any farther doesn’t help.  I do
notice
> this on the Notchback too
> Sometimes
 almost like its hunting and pecking for a happy spot when
> cruising along.
>
> So how much do those air volume jets control the mixture over the whole
> curve?  I had always thought they were mainly for idle mixture.
>
> Keith
>
>
>
> Top Notch Restorations
> topnotch at nycap.rr.com
> http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
> 71 Squareback "Hothe"
> 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
> 65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
> 87 golf "Winterat"
> 93 RX7 "Redstur"
>
>
>
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Brian Fye
Canyonville Christian Academy
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