Does your state require that the vehicle be smogged? If not a lot of that stuff can be
removed and would be surprised at how well the car runs. Have had this problem on several
of my 80-up AMCs, mostly Eagles that would stumble or die at stops, sometimes turns.
Several things cured it, depending on the car! The best carbs I have used for later model
stuff is Tomco brand, they are no nonsense. So I request them if I have to replace the
Carter.
Another thing is on one of the Jeep sites, they having same problem. With all the
different crap blends of gas all over US, this also causes problems, here with two of mine
they kept getting this yellowish buildup around the idle jets. If you look directly
straight down into carb you will see them, they stick out like this \ / and a good blast
of carb cleaner once a month kept them clean, and open and no stuttering or stalling, this
mostly happened on the 88
Eagles it seemed.
On my 82 Eagle, I tore out all the emissions stuff, there was miles of it, plugged stuff
up, tossed others, and disconnected anything emissions. Then retuned it, moving idle
slightly up. The car turned from wimp to stump puller and has 210,000 miles on it now, no
smoke and driven heavily.
On some of these, yes, you will have buildup ad pressure inside tank, especially during
summer it seems. The cars were not made for the crap gas, ethanol, e85, blends ands what
not now on market. You hear repeatedly that you should fill up your tank at night, not
during day as you won't get all you pay for due to evaporation, same applies here with
tank.
It was 99 here today, and when I went to put gas in the 72 Ambassador, the pressure was
quite high in it a big whhsh! sound, usually I take the unvented cap off slowly but forgot
with kids hollering.
Some of above may or may not help
though, but worth trying perhaps.
Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
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