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Old 08-07-2006 | 10:31 AM
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It appears that fouling out my plugs seems to now be a regular occurance lately. Probably has to do with now that I have my boat at the yacht club, I have a 15 minute idle down the river before I get to the open waters.
I have already bumped the heat up one range to try and resolve the issue, but no luck. I am running NGK plugs BKR5ES11. I have no soot on my transom. I worked out the richness issues last season and I should have the right jets in there now, but last season I didn't do nearly as much idleing.
My carbs are fairly new Holly's 750 cfm 4160 with 4150 secondary blocks (so I can change out jets).
Any suggestions?
I am thinking there is a idle mixture adjustment that needs to be done, but not sure exactly where that is? How much to move it? And what direction to move it?
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Old 08-07-2006 | 10:53 AM
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best way to set idle mixture is with a vacuum gauge, here is one link on how to http://www.chevyhiperformance.com/howto/45638/
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Old 08-07-2006 | 10:58 AM
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Do you have a big cam in the motor? If so, take the flame arrestor off and look down into the primary. If you see fuel dripping out of the booster you may need a different power valve.
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Old 08-07-2006 | 11:07 AM
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The cam is fairly big... the largest roller cam that my builder was comfortable installing with wet exhaust. I will check that out and see if there is fuel drizzling out.
We did adjust the mixture with a vacuum guage initially last year. But it is an extremely touchy situation... the guage bounces a lot, etc. And at this point I was thinking I would just back off the screw a little at a time, but I don't know which screw.. I'll check that web page.
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Old 08-07-2006 | 11:15 AM
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Try and get best average vacuum reading at idle, power valves should be about half of that reading.

I ended up with 2.5 power valves in order to get them to stay closed at idle.
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Originally Posted by Wobble
best way to set idle mixture is with a vacuum gauge, here is one link on how to http://www.chevyhiperformance.com/howto/45638/
Good article.
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Old 08-07-2006 | 11:26 AM
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Found another good one on power valves

http://www.chevyhiperformance.com/te...ems/index.html

and this http://www.mortec.com/carbtip1.htm

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