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loadamatic petronix in 289 distributor

new carb on, plugs sooty as cleaned them re fitted, good spark in dizzy crap spark on plugs, not even fire up no aaarhhgh going to check coil tomorrow was brand new plus ballast. hey ho eh

was complete distributor swap,the original loadamatic to a points 57 on distributor i probobally did 1000 plus miles over a two year period with: a pertronix converted loadamatic, my modified 2 hole inlet with a 600 holley and although bit fluffy under 1500rpm actually not really too...

yes she all timed up pal did it not sure what deg sorry.i again sprayed around sides of carb, carb base,inlet to heads and no air leaks.is a classic air leak symptom but not.

hello all ta for input! been out there spanneing again today went thro the 57 on points dizzy and refitted, done timing she fires on the button but still boggy reving, hand over choke revs up sweet, carb developed a fuel leak at rear so off it came, outer 4 screws on underside finger tite inner...

im thinking that as dizzy was in a state to start and carb had rebuild, i have messed about with timing mixture swapped back the original loadamatic and nothing, my pal says its carb, im on the fence however i ran it with choke flap almost shut just around block and was huge improvment, so i am...

thanks ive had it blocked, going to double check vac can on replacment dizzy that came out of apparant running vehicle, so far the condender and points had to be replaced, theres slight play in shaft, the cap not best may as well go full house and find the vac diaphram shot too. know the...

many thanks, the cold air draw is that blanked off or left open there quite a "draw" from it with engine running

hello sorry delay, thankyou for input, been back onto guy who rebuilt carb,he suggested using vacuum on choke not one on metering block to connect to dizzy, its the larger bore externally threaded just to lft of choke

yes 465 carb on propper four barrel inlet new gaskets all round. thats the video, i did initially fit the 465 carb on the original inlet and it running exaxtly same, ie not reving up when hard acceleration from idle, i am being sent larger squirter to try after that guessing 50cc acc pump.

https://youtu.be/Kqt0genqe3M here is a vid, told poss need larger acc pump

still same only runs with choke on, gave a spin goes ok, definatley no air leaks most strange

i did make note of head id, i cannot recall it to hand but it was 56, ta For location of block nos will take a look tomorrow

thankyou for info i am suspecting carb as i tried same carb on original modified inlet and it doing same as it did on that

will se if engine casting visible

here tis

spent few hours on today, new gaskets its same as was before wont rev up when dump throttle, close choke and itll rev perfectly, giving symptom of air leak but has all new gaskets. very odd.

many thanks, have bags of room as its on a truck, its an open 1" i cannot wait to get it all together, i swapped carbs over have air leak somwhere, weve had really bad rain here hoping for dry spell tomorrow!

i made a converter plate on my 272 allowing me to fit a 4 x barrel on 2 x barrel inlet, basically an aluminium plate and 1" phelonic spacer, i now have a propper inlet,i gave it a black flash once over and cleaned inlets up touch whats the concensus on using a phelonic spacer to redude heat...

new carb has choke but on my last 3 v8 cars ive never bothered even in cold, couple blips throttle soon gets her going