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  • December 02, 2024, 02:46:21 AM

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Author Topic: What causes carb to move to fast idle position? Choke thermostat?  (Read 14746 times)

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Offline 86Woodgrain

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Re: What causes carb to move to fast idle position? Choke thermostat?
« Reply #45 on: November 30, 2022, 03:53:56 PM »
Here. Hopefully this is detailed enough to explain what you should be seeing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i-lUwsrDNk
Thanks, great explanation! On mine I can't duplicate that because my SolVac isn't near the screw even when fully warm, fast idle cam completely off.

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Re: What causes carb to move to fast idle position? Choke thermostat?
« Reply #46 on: November 30, 2022, 04:20:52 PM »
Yep. Time for a swap then.
I've listed a Mopar and Borg Warner part number in the description.

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Re: What causes carb to move to fast idle position? Choke thermostat?
« Reply #47 on: November 30, 2022, 04:26:03 PM »
Thanks. Funny both of mine are the same in terms of how far or not far they stick out with 12V applied.

For reference here's a copy and paste so I can look it up later
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Defective Sol-Vac units (open coil or bad diaphragm) should be replaced. Replacement part cross-references I know of are:
Mopar: 83500342
Federal Mogul/Borg Warner: 213-245

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Re: What causes carb to move to fast idle position? Choke thermostat?
« Reply #48 on: December 27, 2022, 11:44:34 PM »
Update: I have not been able to drive my car recently due to a tire issue and doing some tinkering on it.... but I have some exciting news!

I contacted the seller on eBay with the SoleVac unit for sale in the USA and they after a week or so enabled shipping to Canada. So I was finally able to buy it!! Woohoo, it was kinda pricey at $103 Metric Dollars after all is said and done but that will be a new NOS part so yay. The smarter thing to do would be to put that money toward EFI swap but hey I'm trying to keep things original, I'm a little weird like that.

Next up I really need tires, and I need to drop the gas tank and replace the sending unit with one that is accurate. Install those mudflaps I mentioned in the other thread and then I can get back to tweaking the choke! I haven't actually got much done on the car in the last little bit but hopefully in the next 2 weeks I should be able to make some progress again.
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