Re: Cold engine and smoke and gas problem, continued

[jtrealty@xxxx]

If the mixture is SLIGHTLY out of adjustment it would have a major 
effect on the gas mileage and not affect the idle quality. The only 
way to properly adjust the fuel mixture unit is to hook the engine up 
to an exhaust gas analyzer. The bad sound you hear I am taking a wild 
guess is the bearings in the idler pulleys by the air conditioning 
compresser. To test this guess take off the belt and run the motor for 
a minute. If the sound goes away change the bearings, it's not 
difficult. Condition is not predicated on mileage although it does 
have an effect, low mileage cars sometimes need more work to get them 
roadworthy than a well maintained higher mileage car. I have seen VERY 
low mileage cars without recalls, origional fan relay, rotten battery, 
sludge for brake fluid, slime for anti-freeze, shoe polish for 
gasoline, you get the picture. The car was purchesed new driven 
alittle and then "stored" until it is worth a fortune. While it may 
not have any interior wear and the outside has no dings it will take a 
lot of "love" and tender care and EXPENSIVE PARTS to get it reliable.
A car such as described is a good candidate for concours without alot 
of work but to be a reliable driver is a long way away. Sadly people 
with a car to sell such as this want top dollar when in reality 
depending on how much you can do yourself you could spend $5000. on 
it. I know it's hard to believe but if you don't prepare for it and 
budget the money and do all of the work the car will disappoint you 
regularly when it doesn't get you home. No matter how good it looks on 
the outside it is still 20 years old.( sometimes so is the gas, brake 
fluid, anti-freeze, heck you get the picture again).
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757 it didn't have 20 year old gas but everything else probably 
was! including the windshield washer fluid, did it stink!




--- In dmcnews@xxxx, Joe Palatinus <jpalatinus@xxxx> wrote:
> I have been trying to solve my 15 miles to the gallon problem for 
quite
> some time. My frequency valve operates normal, (After a quick 
drive
> around the block I hear the buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ugh 
buzzzzzzzzzzzz...) but
> just recently I have noticed white smoke in the mornings and 
terrible
> accleration just after leaving my driveway. It seems to clear up 
within 1
> minuute of runing the car. The smoke only occurs when I give the 
car gas
> in 1st gear during this first minute, and it does lag badly. I am 
not
> leaking any antifreeze, and the car never smells like gas even 
though it
> eats it like it is a bottomless pit. I also have a slight
> grumble/rattle/scrape/not good sounds bad sound in the engine that I 
can
> only hear when I am outside of the car near the engine. This engine 
has
> less then 8000 miles on it and was purchased new from houston less 
than 3
> years ago. I mention this problem again only because the white 
smoke
> thread just started and some people are experiemceing this accl lag 
as
> well. I would like to urge you to see how much gas you are using, 
maybe we
> are all in the same boat. The only idea I have is that my CO screw 
is out
> of adjustment, but I seem to idle fine, and it seems like a screw 
that far
> out of adjustment would idle real rough. Any other suggestions?
> Joe Palatinus
> 17167 6808