Dear Jay, Your vacuum diaphragm in the distributor is leaking. Check that and drop me a line. I will explain. Your AMC friend, Gary Walker
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay" <jciampi@xxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC LIST" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:46 PM
Subject: cracked exhaust manifold on 232
DriveBoy, I changed my maniufold yesterday on my American and the darn thing about fell apart when I unbolted it from the block. It had all kinds of cracks, some hair-line and some quite wide and long. Car sounds a lot quieter now but doesn;t idle any smoother.
When I set the idle in Park at a rather fast 700 rpm, when i put it inand the engine slows down, it almost gets loping and rough. I can't seemtoget a "compromise" setting that will be fairly smooth in Drive and stillnotjump into gear when I take it out of Park and put it in Drive. Any ideas what I might try with this situation?
Jay Laek Placid, FL.