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Car stalls when cold under hard braking

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  • Start date Start date Aug 19, 2004

SadbutTrue

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Happened today, coming out of a parking lot. Hit the brakes pretty hard doing about 20, and it stall before I had slowed to 10. The car is running very rich, and the timing is a bit retarded (to deal with a ping), if that might be an issue.
 

SadbutTrue

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anyone?
 

J-Scratch

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Probably the carb/runnung rich issue.
 
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Ozsum2

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yea, and the timing being a retard.
 
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i have the same issue with my 68 ... converting now to EFI so will see if that gets that problem solved...
 

foghorn67

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do you have sight plugs on your fuel bowl, check those. might need to adjust choke a bit.
 

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1. Do you have the Air Horns installed on the carb?

2. Have you adjusted the float height on the rear bowl?

Couple things could be happening:

Your float level might be correct, but you removed the air horn so when you stopped short the gas runs out of the vent and flooded the car

Your float level might be too high and with or without removed airhorns you flooded on a short stop.

The float might be sticky in the rear bowl allowing the bowl to get too much gas in it and it flooded the car and usually drips down the intake under normal running and causes you to run rich

You may have sunk the floats in both bowls on the short stop causing it to stall.

You might.....well I think you see the pattern...its all carb related
 

brianj5600

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I don't know about Ede carbs, but float level might be it.
 

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Do you know how to tune your carb? I have the same style and it is very easy to do. I did a search on the web and came up with this http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles/1071/
 

SadbutTrue

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yeah i tuned it, but because my car was pinging i had to set it to run real rich. I think that isn't helping anything.
 
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I would retun the idle and get it to the proper mixture. You may have been helping the situation with the rich mixture IF the choke wasn't operating correctly. Check to see if it is closing. Then check the idle rpm. It needs to be idleing around 1100 rpm when cold, and the fast idle cam will take it from there when it begins to warm up. I suspect, that it was cold, not much choke, too rich, timing too slow, and idle speed to slow.
 
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ForceFed70

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Power brakes? If so.. check your vacum...there may be a leak.
 

SadbutTrue

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We didn't change the idle mixture, the ping was at acceleration and power settings, so we had to rejet it.

Manual brakes.
 

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Can you tell me what jets you have in your carb now, and where your timing is set? I guess I should also ask what kind of cam your running.
 
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