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i put the hammer down today and when i pulled off my festy didnt. this happened about 6 months ago but i changed my pcv valve so im assuming its a vacuum problem. HELP!
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it'll do the 1/8 in 13.7, spin tires, and make all my drunk buddies giggle.
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butterfly valve in the throttle body sticking? thats what it sounds like...
how often do you 'hammer it'? does it do it when you go easy on the throttle?
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Try cleaning the throttle body with some carb cleaner.Comment
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its carbedit'll do the 1/8 in 13.7, spin tires, and make all my drunk buddies giggle.
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Among the many things it could be, check the bellcrank / throttle cable at the carb, make sure the cable isn't kinked somewhere or routed weird to cause it to bind up, cable isn't rusted, have burrs/loose wire strands.
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Every once in a while I get the car runinng along at 40 kph (35 mph) and push the pedal to the floor. The car should accellerate smoothly to 80 kph (50 mph). If not it's time for a tuneup, including carb cleaner.Original owner of silver grey carburetted 1989 Festiva. 105k km as of June 2006. 140k km as of June 2021.Comment
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Get some carb claner and clean all the linkage on the carb. Make sure it isn't binding anywhere.Comment
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^^ yes x2!!! then lube the crap out of it.Trees aren't kind to me...
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we messed with it a little today and we think its some kind of vacuum soilnoid on the firewall.it'll do the 1/8 in 13.7, spin tires, and make all my drunk buddies giggle.
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ok, this is what i figured so far. Last night i disconnected the carb plugs and battery. Today it ran fine, go figure. So i took off the air cleaner, started it, let it warm up, idle down. I started spraying carb cleaner on the vacuum lines and found that the line at the back of the carb was sucking air. what I'm gonna try to do is replace the lines and try to find a new abcv valve.
this better fix it for good.it'll do the 1/8 in 13.7, spin tires, and make all my drunk buddies giggle.
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