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Clem Clement · 02-06-2015, 07:55 PM

The huckster we had been working on finally started. Lots of backfiring. The car has been sitting for 3 months with gas in the carb. We reset the timing using the Nurex special tool. After getting a fairly good hi idle, the exhaust pipe just aft of the exhaust manifold became cherry red. If we reduced the idle some the temp went down some. We retimed the engine to no avail. Also the motor had no power and a very slow acceleration. The radiator was fill.

It started poorly but idled OK.
We decided the carb, which had been rebuilt 2 years ago, had collected water and junk in it and removed the carb for rebuild which we will do later.

Any other ideas?

02-06-2015, 07:55 PM	#1
Clem Clement Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Fairfax, VA Posts: 3,532	hot exhaust pipe and poor power The huckster we had been working on finally started. Lots of backfiring. The car has been sitting for 3 months with gas in the carb. We reset the timing using the Nurex special tool. After getting a fairly good hi idle, the exhaust pipe just aft of the exhaust manifold became cherry red. If we reduced the idle some the temp went down some. We retimed the engine to no avail. Also the motor had no power and a very slow acceleration. The radiator was fill. It started poorly but idled OK. We decided the carb, which had been rebuilt 2 years ago, had collected water and junk in it and removed the carb for rebuild which we will do later. Any other ideas?