[DeTomaso] 1972 detomaso pantera

Thu Apr 2 14:51:31 EDT 2009

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Quoting 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.
>>> >
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