mainevette
Member
Hello,
My Vette has been running well for the summer so far until this morning. I jumped in, pumped the pedal and started her like usual. This time though when I turned the key, the idle was WAY too fast! So i let her run figuring "what the hell, why not." Well, 8 hours later I have still been waiting for that to slow down. So I had to call out at work lol. Well I opened the hood and took a look at the carb. Its a Rochester quadrajet, the first thing I thought was maybe the choke rod is stuck? So I "monkeyed" with the linkages, sprayed them with carb cleaner. Still very fast idle that will not kick down. I also noticed the "high idle" cam can be moved by hand up and down. hmmm... I am not a very big Rochester fan, I had a 2 barrel on my 1971 Cutlass and it was well crap!
So if anyone could help me out that would be very VERY much appreciated!
Kyle
My Vette has been running well for the summer so far until this morning. I jumped in, pumped the pedal and started her like usual. This time though when I turned the key, the idle was WAY too fast! So i let her run figuring "what the hell, why not." Well, 8 hours later I have still been waiting for that to slow down. So I had to call out at work lol. Well I opened the hood and took a look at the carb. Its a Rochester quadrajet, the first thing I thought was maybe the choke rod is stuck? So I "monkeyed" with the linkages, sprayed them with carb cleaner. Still very fast idle that will not kick down. I also noticed the "high idle" cam can be moved by hand up and down. hmmm... I am not a very big Rochester fan, I had a 2 barrel on my 1971 Cutlass and it was well crap!
So if anyone could help me out that would be very VERY much appreciated!
Kyle
