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Exploding Cannons see pic's
This causes what is known as vacuum leak.
I have been having a hunting problem at idle (that is where the idle jumps around for all the folks like me who aren’t up on jargon). Well I found out the hard way what it was after trying several different expensive and time consuming linkage set-ups, (not to mention decimating one of the Webers to see if the shaft was straight)
The machine shop tut tutted but says they can fix it.. More $$$$ out the window but they will also port match it to the 48ies instead of the 40ies so hopefully a slight performance improvement here to. They are also going to add more material to strengthen them as much as possible.
Lots of fun when this kind of thing brings the car to a halt (in the middle of
nowhere of course). Nowhere in this case being the area between the on and off ramps of the cloverleaf intersection of the two busiest HWY's in the St Louis area (270 and 44) where there is no #^%@* shoulder and you are miles from a phone.
Only took two ½ hours to rig something that finally worked to limp it out of there.... The fuel pump coming unwired did n’t help this. (Don’t ask…. just remember if you put a bigger motor in a Manta once a year retighten every bolt especially the one you can’t see and all the ones that are hard to get to).
Since it was so noisy with all the cars going by I drained the battery trying to start the car cause I couldn't hear that the fuel pump was not going and I thought my rag intake was letting in too much air. Yes an aluminum foil wrapped wadded rag and some huge washers will serve as an intake long enough to get you off the hwy and 11 miles home when one of your intake manifolds splits open and breaks in two pieces. I would of added pictures but the rag and foil did not leave enough pieces that weren’t cremated to photograph.
On the bright side for a change I was totally ignored by the police who were to busy driving by back and forth writing tickets to mess with a stranded motorist with a car on jackstands in the left lane blocking hwy traffic.
This causes what is known as vacuum leak.
I have been having a hunting problem at idle (that is where the idle jumps around for all the folks like me who aren’t up on jargon). Well I found out the hard way what it was after trying several different expensive and time consuming linkage set-ups, (not to mention decimating one of the Webers to see if the shaft was straight)
The machine shop tut tutted but says they can fix it.. More $$$$ out the window but they will also port match it to the 48ies instead of the 40ies so hopefully a slight performance improvement here to. They are also going to add more material to strengthen them as much as possible.
Lots of fun when this kind of thing brings the car to a halt (in the middle of
nowhere of course). Nowhere in this case being the area between the on and off ramps of the cloverleaf intersection of the two busiest HWY's in the St Louis area (270 and 44) where there is no #^%@* shoulder and you are miles from a phone.
Only took two ½ hours to rig something that finally worked to limp it out of there.... The fuel pump coming unwired did n’t help this. (Don’t ask…. just remember if you put a bigger motor in a Manta once a year retighten every bolt especially the one you can’t see and all the ones that are hard to get to).
Since it was so noisy with all the cars going by I drained the battery trying to start the car cause I couldn't hear that the fuel pump was not going and I thought my rag intake was letting in too much air. Yes an aluminum foil wrapped wadded rag and some huge washers will serve as an intake long enough to get you off the hwy and 11 miles home when one of your intake manifolds splits open and breaks in two pieces. I would of added pictures but the rag and foil did not leave enough pieces that weren’t cremated to photograph.
On the bright side for a change I was totally ignored by the police who were to busy driving by back and forth writing tickets to mess with a stranded motorist with a car on jackstands in the left lane blocking hwy traffic.
