After doing as much research as possible on my Solex carb and coming up with almost nothing (@#$!@^%$&), I finally got Ike idling like he should. Again.<\/p>\n
My thought was that the choke was stuck open when the first adjustment to the idle was made by my dad (someone had to sit in the driver seat and keep the idle up while the adjustments were made), which caused the mixture to eventually lean out after the lever on the back of the carburetor began to drop back down.<\/p>\n
Turns out, the adjustment that needed to be done was on the throttle linkage. The idle adjustment screw wasn’t even touching the plate that it pushes against to keep the throttle and accelerator linkage open. After giving it a almost 2 turns, I was not only able to keep the engine running, but even after stopping it, the starter turned right over and things went humming along with the throttle cable pushed all the way in and no pumping of the accelerator. All in all, I think I fixed my most pressing issue at this point. Ike is almost like a new Jeep. Almost \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Here’s hoping that it’s not too windy the rest of the week so I can get some more driving in before the weather gets too hot.<\/p>\n
Also, I took Ike out for a quick run in the field next to the housing development. Just enough for some travel in 4 wheel drive. Nothing too exciting, but still a good little run to try and get that screw to vibrate loose again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After doing as much research as possible on my Solex carb and coming up with almost nothing (@#$!@^%$&), I finally got Ike idling like he should. Again. My thought was that the choke was stuck open when the first adjustment to the idle was made by my dad (someone had to sit in the driver seat and keep the idle up while the adjustments were made), which caused the mixture to eventually lean out after the lever on the back of the carburetor began to drop back down. Turns out, the adjustment that needed to be done was on the…<\/p>\n