ok my mav is my dailey driver and i cant drive it like this, when i give it some gass even from a stop, in park, or any way of moving the car it kinda sounds like its going to die or its bogging. i checked the timing and it was fine, this has happened to me before and timing fixed it but not this time PLEASE HELP ASAP
i just cleaned it out about a month and a half ago, you think i should replace? its only a year and a half old?
If you have a dirty tank it can keep getting clogged in an early as a couple of days. The gas tanks usually corrodes from the inside, not to mention fuel lines, fuel pump and the rubber pieces. All this stuff degrades after time. There should be more than one filter, one in the tank usually refereed to as a "sock" filter and one on the carburetor. There maybe also one inline somewhere. X2
i cleaned the one by carburetor, and how do i check those? i checked the squirter things in carb and there pretty responsive
Ok, which is it ? year and a half ? Or month and a half ? You don't clean fuel filters, you replace them. Recheck the timing, it very well could have changed if something is going on with the distributor. You running points or electronic ?
the only reason i cleaned it was because this happened last time and i thought that could be the problem, but it wasn't, and what should my timing be at? and i don't know about points or electric?
The factory timing setting is 6*BTC, but every Ford V8 I've run, runs better at around 12*BTC. Remove the distributor cap and look inside the distributor body, there you'll find either a mechanical breaker switch (points) or an electronic device. Electronic far and away will out perform points and stay set once you set it. Th eproblem with points was they're affected by moisture (humidity) and they wear out over time, requiring constant replacement or adjustment. That amount of time depends on how much you drive the car and how good the point set is. Most so called "carb" problems are really rooted to changes in the ignition settings.
Especially the VAC line going to your distributor. This line causes a timing advance, and with that disconnected the motor will run rough and bog down. Side Note: Failing emissions testing? Pull this vac line off and run it through again. Specifically with CO emissions, it should lower them as the timing advance will cease. Runs like crap, but its a good intermediate step before you start tweaking your carburetor, idle or timing.
thanks everyone my dad took a look with me and the metal collar around a wire going into the distributor, got pushed in somehow and we pulled it back out and much better. would that be considered a vacuum leak?
