My belief is that the current batches of fuel mix we get is pretty darned good at scouring out gum and varnish. It seems that if the car will run well enough to get through a tank or two of gas the system cleans itself! The killers are. Rust Actual chunks and bits of dirt. Hardening of gaskets and rubber hoses. The dreaded black gunk! That hardens on valve stems and sticks the valves. Once running do the crawl, check and or replace all the hoses! When they are 10+ years old they tend to be hard as ROCK. Replace. I now only buy efi rated hose as all the efi hose I used is fine. non efi rated by the tank on the return was rock hard after only about 8 years! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from U.S. Cellular -----Original Message----- From: ksiroonian@xxxxxxx Sender: amc-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:26:02 To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [AMC-list] eagle 82 poor running Carb My 81 Concord 258 with BBD was running poorly this year, could not keep it running unless i kept my foot on the gas to keep her going, then had to keep braking the car as well. My vac lines were all ok, and it had run fine last year. I put a bottle of the GUMOUT gold color Fuel system- carb and FI cleaner in and a full tank of gas. Ran through about 3/4 of a tank... it said to run the tank to near empty, and then all of a sudden its running great, won't skip a beat, so had good luck with that. Maybe cleared out a jet, or removed some moisture, who knows, but just a thought. regards. Ken/boston Message: 9 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:17:01 -0700 (PDT) From: d stohler <das24rules@xxxxxxxxx> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AMC-list] it RUNS!! Message-ID: <534155.56319.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii was workin on the 82 eagle today. had to take the dizzy out of the 79 spirit and put in the eagle. do some vacume line plugging. got it to ALMOST run. had to do the 45 mile trip to town to get a hand full of parts. got home, tinkered little more (carb rebuild mainly) set the dizzy correctly because someone before me had it WAY out of wack. well, after about 1 hour of messing with timing, i finally got it to run. wont idle still. i think its got a bad vacume leak somewhere. no knocks or bad noises. will only run above 1000 rpm or so. im thinking im going to buy a none stepper motor carb. (has a stepper on it now) going to get rid of ALL vacume/electronic crap off of it. none of the gauges work. HAD the 3 gauges/w clock on the nonexisting center console. gauges are there, but not one gauge works. i know it has oil pressure as oil is just gushing out from under the valve cover on the intake side. now i know what everyone is talking about with the stupid plastic valve cover. whats the fix for that? now to just make it idle, and start fixing all the crap thats bad with it now that i know it will run. dave stohler www.picasaweb.google.com/das24rules nd of AMC-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 36 *************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20100926/9df10c20/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com