Thread: Surging problems

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I checked the vacuum lines yesterday afternoon and found a very small split on the carb end of the vac hose to the distrib... nothing that will affect anything, but I trimmed it off anyway to stop the split from going further. That was the only thing I came across.

Fuel mixture settings are all good (my marks are still lined up perfectly anyway) and the car ran great up till last weekend - I've got it running a touch fat actually because I'd rather run with a hair too much fuel than risk detonation........ maybe I'll try turning things up a bit just for the hell of it though.

As for what I did right before it started happening... nothing that I can think of. The last thing I did was replace plugs and wires, but that was about a month ago and I didn't have issues afterward. Otherwise all I've done under the hood lately is check the oil. Just for the hell of it, I even checked that all of the plugs and wires were still seated tight yesterday, but that was all good.


Truth be told, I'm kind of wondering if the motor isn't just slowly on it's way out. After all, 25 years of daily driven wear and tear (for the summer months), regardless of regular maintenance, is a quite a good life span for a stock powerplant without getting a good refresh. i was hoping she'd keep going for another year at least, but it might be time for that 331 stroker upgrade a little sooner than I had planned.