Author: rcmaniac791
I’m Still Alive!
Well howdy everyone!
I know it’s been some time since you’ve seen me around these parts. Life has been absolutely nuts the last year or so, as my family has lost 3 of our members withing 8 months of each other, and we have had to deal with that, but everything is starting to look up.
For those of you who I haven’t had the pleasure to meet yet, I am currently a college student, and I’m 4 months away from wrapping up my 3rd year in this place. Fortunately, I have my faithful 5th here to…
Update, the ’84, and minor paint correction?
What’s up everyone? So a little update with me and the car. My second year of college is very rapidly coming to an end (3 more days! 3 more days!) and the 5th is holding it’s own, once again being extremely reliable and dependable. I had a bit of a pinging issue at part throttle, but when I checked the timing, it was reading 25* at IDLE! Waaaay too much. I set that back down to 16*, and she’s much happier. I’m also still not leaking oil, which is awesome.
I’ll be also working at my local…
Vacuum Amplifier Question
So the canister thing on the back right of the engine, I believe it’s called the vacuum amplifier. Since I’m not using the lean-burn computer anymore, it it really necessary to keep it in there, or can I take it out? I just don’t really know what purpose it serves, and I have to take it out anyway to get access to the oil pressure sensor that I need to replace. I’d like to clean up some of the junk from under there. I’ll try to get up pictures tomorrow so y’all will know what I’m talking about.
Choke Pull-off
So whenever it is really cold, I have noticed that the 318 runs really rough until it’s warm, then it runs fine. I also never have any problems starting the car. Anyway, I went under the hood while it was warming up and manually pulled on the choke linkage, and the idle smoothed out. It seems like the vacuum canister pull-off is pulling harder than the spring, and the choke is turning off too fast. Is there any way to adjust the rate of the choke pull-off? I did just replace the choke…
Stock 1984 318 specs
Hey guys,
This is my first post in the site, so hopefully I won’t butcher it too badly:toothy10:
I have a 1984 Fifth Avenue, and I’ve had it…