'79 Olds 260 where do I start?
Hi :)
Sorry if I'm taking your time with stupid questions, but I'm a complete novice when it comes to cars.
I got my car a couple of weeks ago and it would stall every time it was put into gear, altho' accelerating at the same time would get it going and once it was moving it was fine until I stopped completely with it in gear and it would stall again if I didn't use the accelerator. I've checked that there weren't any vacuum leaks to the carb and the vacuum advance was working. Increasing the idle speed didn't help. It had a new fuelpump when I got it because the guy I got it from thought that was the problem and I've put a new fuel filter on as well. My dad suggested I try to advance the timing and that has made it run when I put it into gear.
According to the sticker on the car, the timing should be at 20 but it is now on 22. The car is also idling too fast. It also fires slightly after switching off the ignition which it didn't do before, so I guess thats because the timing is advanced more than it should be. It also lags behind slightly when I've been stopped at junctions etc, like it's not getting the fuel through properly when I accelerate, but it's not a problem as long as give it time to get going.
So my questions are:
where do I start to get it running properly?
Does the timing have to be set right first? Because it says to adjust the idle speed to 500rpm with it in drive, but this is difficult if it's not running in drive. So do I try to set it with the timing its got now?
Then it says to adjust the fast idle screw so it runs at 800rpm in park. Nothing happens when I adjust the fast idle screw.
I was also wondering if it is possible that the idle control valves could be blocked a bit so it's not getting enough fuel when on the idle circuit?
My dad has sent me a carb service kit (yeah he's in Norway, so can't help me with any "hand on stuff" here in Scotland). If that was the problem how difficult is it to go over the carb myself? It's a Rochester dualjet 210.
Everything seems to be original on the car.
Just some pointers in the right direction would be great! The car runs no problem, but just a bit concerned that I might damage something with it not running as it should
Thanks
Kirsti :)