[DeTomaso] 1972 detomaso pantera

[asajay at asajay.com]

Short story, but applicable.

My Pantera Ran fine, just like you describe here, except I didn't have  
a choke problem. My wife and I carpooled to work one day in the  
Pantera and took it to lunch.  We stopped at the bank's drive-thru,  
and stopped the car.  We do that to reduce the noise while banking.

We went to start the car and it ran terribly.  I got it limped to my  
wife's office where it promptly died and would not restart.  It had  
been running just fine until the bank.

Later that night, after work aand coming back to her office, we  
finally ended up pulling the distributor to check the gear. The Gear  
was fine.  The original timing link belt however, had jumped several  
teeth. I could just barely see into the timing housing by peering  
through the open distributor hole and see the cam gear was missing  
nylon.

My point here is this... I doesn't matter how well it was running this  
morning, yesterday or last week.  If you don't check the items  
mentioned, you may be doing a lot of work only to increase the level  
of frustration.  In my case, I could have replaced plugs, wires, cap,  
rotor, carb, intake, rocker arms, heads, etc. and would -never have  
fixed the problem.  Imagine -that- much frustration and cost.

So, your "one clue" is really not very valid until you check all the  
other items.

The only reason two carb rebuilds end in the same symptom is either  
because the rebuilder is totally inept (which I sincerely do -not-  
believe), or the carb is -not- the problem.

Asa Jay



Quoting boyd casey <boyd411 at gmail.com>:

> That's why I advised him to start at square one and make sure all the basic
> values are set correctly. The one clue is that the car was running okay
> until Robert removed the wire holding the choke open and tried to repair the
> broken choke. Everything was cool until he tried to eliminate the Jury
> rigged choke.Boyd
> As far as throwing money away. someone suggested getting a carb that was
> known to be good and using that as a starting point. Here in New York (lOng
> Island ) a "Good" high Performance mechanic will easily cost more then a
> remaned carb. So it is a toss up as far as trying to replace the carb since
> the car ran well ( he drove it in "the great race" to buffalo and back  over
> 900 miles) before he tried to "fix the choke".
>
> Boyd
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, <asajay at asajay.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you checked the spark plug wires are in order?
>> Have you checked the ignition timing is on?
>> Do you know the distributor gear shear pin is intact?
>> Do you know the timing gear set has not skipped?
>> Did you check the float levels of the carb?
>> Have you tried a known good carb?
>>
>> There are a lot of other things you need to check before you simply
>> throw more money at it. I hate to see you install all those new items,
>> only to find out it was all caused by something else.
>>
>> Quoting LEVITT1946 at aol.com:
>>
>> > Hello Friends of the Newcomer,
>> > Well...The Saga Continues ...Last night I tore down the carb again.
>>  Replaced
>> > the power valve with a 65. Cleaned all jets.....replaced accelerator
>>  pumps
>> > at each end of the magnificent holley 4779-7 750 cfm.new carb to manifold
>> > gasket....Put all back together and prayed for a great startup.
>> > WRONG!.Car was
>> > still chugging...chug...chug...chug.....and smoke from tailpipes.
>> >
>> > Plan for tonight is the following.New spark plug wires....new distributor
>> > cap and rotor .Distributor is a mallory electronic and the coil is a
>> >   promaster
>> > #28720.
>> >
>> > Robert
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