Perhaps whatever caused the gunk was floating and the flow at idle was pushing a speck of it into the jet? Just remembering out loud so to speak
Sent from my mobile phone. Brien Hamrick -----Original Message----- From: Jack Dinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 1:12 PM To: Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [vintagvw] fixed my Vw Bug Hmm. Curious. Since the accelerator pump is not active during idle, I'm surprised that redirecting the squirt cured the no-idle problem. jack >Hi all, >I wanted to thank everyone for ideas on why my '72 bug would idle >but would die when I would try to move. I finally found the problem >when I took the top of the carb and noticed the excelerator spout >had black crud in the hole making the fuel spray off to one side. I >cleaned it out so the gas would squirt down the carb. Now it runs >great. > >-Damon >_______________________________________________ >vintagvw site list >[email protected] >http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
