Chapter 5 in the on-going saga of the Carter 2bbl rebuild.
I imagine this happens with Hollies too. I have a Carter 2bbl carb on a 383 and an automatic transmission. Every time I'm at the light and idling, when the light turns green, if I don't want to burp to a stall and embarrass myself, I have to tap the gas a couple very short jabs, otherwise, if I just press the pedal as you would normally (no hot-rodding, no punching)the engine dies and I have to re-start it.
The engine and carb otherwise run great - lots of power on the highways and good get up and go from a slow roll.
This stalling does not have to be at the light. I can recreate it from under the hood with the car idling in Park: all I do is "slowly" pull on the throttle cable as if I were in the car just trying to move it from a stop light. What happens is the carb seems to "gasp." I can prevent a stall out if I very quickly "jimmy" the throttle cable. Almost as if I were trying to play the carb over some kind of "hump."
I am wondering: could the carb be so old that air is sneaking past to clearances around the worn(?) throttle shaft?
Anybody got any similar happenings and solutions?
Cheers from NC
PS: Y'know, my GMCs don't do this to me. I had a MOPAR cop car in the seventies and I should have known better than to adopt another one!
PS2: How come MOPARS don't start the first time? It ALWAYS takes two or three tries! What is that, anyway?
