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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>[[[</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none'>One thing I had to<o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none'>do was put a restriction in the line to the crankcase breather, something<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none'>Ray Greenwood suggested, about 3mm, that seemed to work<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none'>And allowed it to breath but kept idle within range.]]]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I can see there’s a LOT of air going through the PCV valve, and I wondered if I somehow restricted the large diameter hose to the PCV valve - it would reduce the air entering the IAD…..thereby bringing down the idle….But that seems like a wrong thing to do to a ’72 system with large diameter fresh air hoses coming off each cylinder head. I put my finger directly over the PCV valve to eliminate it, (not that I would run it this way) and it reduced the idle speed a lot, but not enough to make it idle – so there’s some other thingy amiss.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanx for the props, John </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😉</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none'>Dave Pallo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none'>’72 Square ~ Elwood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none'>Fairport, New York<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>