[DML] Not so Frustrated beyond belief now

[Phil Priestley <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I meant by this is that no matter how lean the air fuel mixture is 
the exhaust is still full of raw fuel.

  I tracked down (I think) most of the problem(s). I pulled the air 
intake today to check that the plug wires weren't swapped around and 
found that the dist. cap wasn't seated properly and that I had gotten 
the fuel lines from the cpr and the cold start valve switched around. 
STUPID, STUPID STUPID. I don't know how many times Ive disconnected 
those and put them back over the years. I looked at the fuel lines, 
compared them to the diagram and still missed it.

I realized that although I had cleaned and re-gapped the plugs last 
weekend they were fouled with soot from cylinders not firing because of 
A) the dist cap sitting cockeyed so it wasn't firing on all cylinders 
and B) Fuel all out of whack from having the lines hooked up wrong .

So I think that this was a combination of
Dead RPM relay
Fouled 02 sensor
Dead Frequency valve
Dist cap not seated
My stupidity in switching the lines around
Sooted plugs
Plugs not gapped correctly , bad plug wires, carbon tracked cap and 
weak coil (when I started into this whole mess)

I changed out a plug that was fouled and wasn't firing and things ran a 
lot better. Will change out the rest of the plugs tomorrow and I am 
keeping my fingers crossed that I will have a running vehicle again.


 >> The above was written on Saturday so now for the update.

Changed out the sooted plugs and fired things up. BINGO! Got the 
mixture dialed in and thing were great. Hopped into the car to try it 
out and at the end of the street it lost power and died. Started it up 
again and headed home with the car surging badly. I thought to myself 
"now why is that fuel pump so noisy" . To add insult to injury, with 
all this idling too rich in the driveway I had ran the car out of gas 
and the fuel sender decided to not read correctly. I put in the gallon 
of gas for the mower and headed down the street to the gas station 
where it took 13.5 gallons to fill up.
I drove it around for the next half hour to clean the soot off the 02 
sensor and out of the exhaust system. More that I drove it the better 
it ran. The car idles without a miss and holds rock steady at about 775 
rpms.

Took it home parked it, washed it and then changed the wiper seal and 
"cat whisker seal " for the toll booth window. Apparently the poor old 
window motor couldn't handle the new seals and the cable popped out of 
the guide tube when I rolled up the window so I know what my next 
project will be LOL. While I have the door open I will be changing the 
door lock to make it a one key system then all my adventures inside the 
door will be done and I can put the plastic sheet on, put the door 
panels back on for the last time and forget about digging around inside 
it for a good long time.

A much less frustrated
Phil Priestley

Vin 2105
IN FLUX

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On Apr 30, 2005, at 7:33 AM, doctorDHD@xxxxxxx wrote:

>
> I can  lean the mixture out to the point that the engine
> starts to die and it's  still running rich.
>
> Something is wrong with your rich  / lean assessment.
>
> Can you explain what you mean?
>
>
>
>



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