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[C3alex]

I was fiddlin with the Q-jet not knowing what I was really doing and I was trying to get the idle up on the car and the rpm's weren't responding. My wife was talking with me and I went around the drivers side of car and pulled back on the throttle and "vroom",,,up went the rpm's drastically. I reached in the car and shut off the ignition.........as soon as I did it I hollered "SH***t. Yep, the carb coughed and spewed fuel vapor out the flaps. It's getting gas but won't fire up. I won't have time to check it out until friday. Any ideas of what I Bubba-d up ??

Thanks Alex

 

[wishuwerehere82]

It's a good bet you didn't find the idle stop screw.
Sounds more like you tightened up the choke pulloff adjustment.
can you give us a better idea about what you were messing with?
Top? Left side? rRght side? Front?

 

[C3alex]

It's a good bet you didn't find the idle stop screw.
Sounds more like you tightened up the choke pulloff adjustment.
can you give us a better idea about what you were messing with?
Top? Left side? rRght side? Front?

Hi Pete...The screw is located on the rt front of carb down under the pull off...correct??

 

[wishuwerehere82]

That would seem like a likely spot for the choke adjustment. But it has 3 screws that hold the spring plate in place with a plastic cover on the spring. If you rotated the plate counterclockwise, the choke won't open when the engine warms up.
Or that could be your vaccuum secondary linkage. If that's too tight, the secondary throttle plates will be cracked open all the time.
Whatever you did, undo it. Only you know what screws were tweaked.

 

[Vette79]

It's a good bet you didn't find the idle stop screw.
Sounds more like you tightened up the choke pulloff adjustment.
can you give us a better idea about what you were messing with?
Top? Left side? rRght side? Front?

That's what it sounds like to me. As wishuwerehere82 said, undo what you did first and then let us talk you through bumping up the RPM's during idle.