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I recently acquired an awesome carb'ed 89' LX that I love, and I have just been going through the checklist of things to look at/replace after buying a car. I don't know that much about the carburated system and I searched on here about a few things to check, which(don't worry)I'll mention later.
Ok so here's the problem:
The car starts great, but most of the time it idles a little high(@~2k-3kRPM) I have driven it about 600 miles and filled up the tank twice since I got it. I have yet to put in any HEET or carb cleaner. I added some seafoam to the carb(I couldn't get the vac hose off without breaking it) I don't think that the idle is set too high, because there are times that it idles at 500-700RPM. I am thinking that it might just be the choke is sticky or something like that. Also there is a slight click coming from the passenger side wheel when you turn right(Would that be the wheel bearing or the cv joint?). I am not too worried about it as it drives and runs fine except for a little sputtering when you first take off, which I hear is a bi-product of the carb'ed engines, and the over rev'ing issue. I haven't changed the spark plugs, but I was assured from a reliable source that the plugs, wires, distributor and a bunch of other things on there have been replaced.
I plan on changing the plugs' cuz there cheap to change, adding heet, carb cleaner, running some seafom through the gas.
Should I maybe put some PBblaster on the choke? or would that be bad?
Is there anything else that I should change or look at? Like I said I'm relatively new to the carb'ed festivas, so any heads-up here would be appreciated.
I recently acquired an awesome carb'ed 89' LX that I love, and I have just been going through the checklist of things to look at/replace after buying a car. I don't know that much about the carburated system and I searched on here about a few things to check, which(don't worry)I'll mention later.
Ok so here's the problem:
The car starts great, but most of the time it idles a little high(@~2k-3kRPM) I have driven it about 600 miles and filled up the tank twice since I got it. I have yet to put in any HEET or carb cleaner. I added some seafoam to the carb(I couldn't get the vac hose off without breaking it) I don't think that the idle is set too high, because there are times that it idles at 500-700RPM. I am thinking that it might just be the choke is sticky or something like that. Also there is a slight click coming from the passenger side wheel when you turn right(Would that be the wheel bearing or the cv joint?). I am not too worried about it as it drives and runs fine except for a little sputtering when you first take off, which I hear is a bi-product of the carb'ed engines, and the over rev'ing issue. I haven't changed the spark plugs, but I was assured from a reliable source that the plugs, wires, distributor and a bunch of other things on there have been replaced.
I plan on changing the plugs' cuz there cheap to change, adding heet, carb cleaner, running some seafom through the gas.
Should I maybe put some PBblaster on the choke? or would that be bad?
Is there anything else that I should change or look at? Like I said I'm relatively new to the carb'ed festivas, so any heads-up here would be appreciated.
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