[DeTomaso] OK, now what did I screw up?

[Pantdino]

I'm more familiar with Webers than Holleys but carbs generally have 3 circuits:
idle
cruise / main
acceleration

Acceleration jets generally squirt gas when you depress the gas pedal rapidly
What does your car do if you pump the pedal rapidly rather than slowly increasing throttle?

My guess is that your main / cruise circuit is nonfunctional -- probably plugged with the debris you describe

Jim Oddie






-----Original Message-----
From: Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Sun, Apr 17, 2011 10:39 am
Subject: [DeTomaso] OK, now what did I screw up?


Hi all,
 
I've had some off-line conversations over the past day with a few people
egarding my carb cleaning. There may be some general interest to the list,
nd I've lost track of who I have said what to, so the easiest is to just
ost to the list. 
 
I pulled my carb off over the weekend. I removed both bowls and found a
urprising amount of fine sand-type stuff inside. 
 
I removed the floats and cleaned out the bowls. I cleaned up everything the
est I could and re-assembled. 
 
I installed the carb and fired up the engine. I noticed two odd things -
irst what appeared to be a spurt of fuel out of one of the vents, but I
idn't see it again. 
 
The engine fired up and ran pretty well, but if I give it full throttle, the
ngine dies. If I release the throttle, the engine catches again. 
 
Note that it did NOT do this before I "fixed" things. 
 
The carb is a Holley 700DP. It'll run just fine at any rpm as long as the
hrottle is less than half open, at which point it stalls. 
 
What did I screw up? How do I unscrew it up?
 
Thanks!
 
Charles McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe"
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