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  • Start date Start date May 16, 2019
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73coupe302

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So i bought a 1973 coupe with a 302 a couple weeks ago and the guy couldn’t tell me anything about whats been done to it. So its been driving good for the last two weeks and I replaced the throttle cable and now it idles high and over heats.
 

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Have you tried the idle adjusting screw to lower the idle? Do your fans come on when it gets hot?

shem
 
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The Shemdogg said:
Have you tried the idle adjusting screw to lower the idle? Do your fans come on when it gets hot?

shem
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I found out why it was doing it. I was being dumb and So when i took the old cable off i never took that bracket off because i thought it was part of the carb itself So needless to say after looking at carbs on google i realized that so i took it off and now she purs i just gotta do slight adjustments
 
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