« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2013, 10:00:08 AM »
Good luck with that. The Motorcraft is a downgrade from the original Carter. Several of us have struggled for a long time to get the Motorcrafts to run right and never have. I've got four of those kits sitting in junk piles here.
The most recent one was Macdude. Once the Carter was back on and his Gronk carb in the trash, he thought he was driving a race car. The power increased dramatically. He tried everything under the sun to get that cursed Motorcraft to run right.
If you reinstall your Carter simply shoot carb cleaner into everything that looks like a tube until you see it come out someplace else. They like to clog up. Dirt also likes to collect at the bottom of the bowel and that is worth shooting out. I don't even bother replacing gaskets most of the time because the Carter is very forgiving for that sort of thing. In that way I like them alot. They're cheap and they give great gas mileage most of the time. I don't care if its electronic or not, I just leave them unplugged.
The big downfall of the Carter is the choke linkage. That was probably your issue the whole time. When you drive the car cold the bimetallic coil of the choke will push the choke plate down. If you push the gas pedal a vacuum diaphragm on the inboard side will pull it back open sometimes and if you really push the pedal all the way down your throttle is supposed to push on a piece of plastic connected by a thin tiny linkage to the choke plate. The system actually works pretty well most of the time.
What happens every winter for me is that the choke resists while my pedal pushing pushes. That tiny linkage bends. Once it is bent you have to bend it back or else the choke plate will be floppy and go where ever it wants, giving you terribly annoying stall problems, hesitations, poor gas mileage, and aggravation. My mother routinely used to stick a screwdriver in the top of the carb to get our Eagle started years ago before I was old enough to drive.
Bend it back and you're on your way making 25 MPG or better. I have gotten 29 MPG out of stock Eagles many times. The Carter is much better than that chunk of junk Motorcraft. There is no hope of that running right.
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