1989 festiva will not idle

[blueoval]

will run all day if you keep giving it gas.I bought the car to replace my 91crx-si as my daily driver and the po had removed all t he emission stuff.i did not know that untill i sent the carb off to cali to have rebuilt then i saw the missing parts so i rounded them up and installed.been looking for months for help on how all the vacuum lines run still not sure if right.but car had the idle problem when i first got it only has 109,000miles on it and is a tn car so no rust in great shape just need to fix the idle,i drive 100plus miles daily mon-fri and need this car in tip top shape help please and thanks

[bravekozak]

I would recommend not wasting any time or money on the stock feeback carb. I recommend an Escort or Weber carb replacement. You will not need to replace any vacuum lines.
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[blueoval]

i have already had the oem carb professionally rebuilt not cheap and have already bought the emission stuff only thing i do not have is the two large hose on the side of breather i know one goes to cat but not sure which one or were the opther one goes

[georgeb]

It's impossible to tell from the vac diagram where the fat hoses go. Let me go peek at my '89.

[georgeb]

The front fat hose goes to a metal pipe then onto the exhaust flange. The rear fat hose goes to a metal pipe that goes under the car probably to the cat. Do you have all the metal pipes?

[FestYboy]

he'd need a carb specific downpipe to hook up that front fat hose. i'm betting he has either an u resolved vac leak, OR the base idle is set too low.

[blueoval]

no i do not have the metal pipes the po took everything off of the car emission wise and even broke the two vacuum senser on the bottom of the intake but i have everything back on but the two metal hoses but not sure if i got the vacuum correct i can not go by the diagram under the hood.thanks for any help

[blueoval]

have not messed with the idle screw because the place that rebuilt the carb are suppose to test each carb on a stock engine and set to stock specs

[FestYboy]

you can't use their settings, their "engine" is different than yours (wear, compression, ignition). set the warm idle to 650 with the white idle set screw.

[blueoval]

650 assume ur talking rpms my car has no tach so do i just go by ear or what? also i have had it to idle but it seemed really high and does the choke wire hook into the alternator i think it does but it does not have a male part on the alternator.got this car in feb and still have not gotten it on the rd.i thought it was just a carb never dealt with nothing like this before and then heard that the 89 is the odd ball year?thanks for ur help and input festyboy

[Movin]

If the single wire plug in is missing off your alt
because somebody put on the wrong alt. You can
wire the choke to the fuel shut off solenoid on the
carb for the time being. It will open a hair quicker
but at least work. If your metal pipes are missing
you can run hose all the way, or bend up new metal
tubing. You do have the little control solenoid
and the reed valves ?

[georgeb]

'89 is an oddball year only if it is an automatic. Manuals are same as '88 which is only available as manual. Can you try to get those pipes at a junkyard? Is your flange missing something?

[bravekozak]

You require a tach dwell meter to set your idle.

[WmWatt]

You can purchase a hand held tachometer. I found mine at a garage sale, and old tach/dwell meter from the days before fuel injection and trasistorized points.

[georgeb]

You require an ear to set your idle.