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Old 03-12-2003, 11:30 PM
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67 cuda with leaning tower of power. car hadent ran for 5 years. previous owner had carb rebuilt last year trying to get it going. I found the fuel pump bad. new pump and she fired right up. ran ruff but it ran. then the big chill hit ohio. now that things have thawed out I got out and adjusted the valves ( all adjustments way off ) now she sounds great with the peddel down a littel but the idel is strange. its loppy like its got a hi pref cam but It does'nt.
nabor said it is normal for a slant but I dont think he has ever herd one run eather. no tack but idel speed sounds good. it has elictronic distributer with orange box. tried carb adjustment no help. i dont have a timing light but i marked it and tried turning it both directions no better. a friend said the distributer could be a tooth off. any sugestiions?
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Mines kinda got a loppey idle too. I just did a tune up on it (cap, rotor, plugs, wires, and ecu). And it definately smoothed out the acceleration but it still idles kinda loppey. So I'm gonna say it's normal.
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Old 04-04-2003, 07:54 PM
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I got sick of it running bad so I tore it down and gess what I found. mopar 276/490 purple shaft . I was so shocked i allmost had a hart attack. The lope was a cam but the valve seets where in bad shape. i tooke them to wark and did a three angle valve job on them. Do to lose of part time jobe I dont have the $63 for the engine gasket set to put it back together. I think when i get it done it will be one hot machine.
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