[AJD] 1950 A surging at idle

[Duane Larson]

Chris,
Sounds like you still have an obstruction in the idle passage somewhere in
your carb.  Did you remove all the brass plugs and physically clean all the
passages?  Carb cleaner will not get the job done.
Duane Larson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris C" <jdnutinwa at yahoo.com>
To: "ATIS LIST" <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:04 PM
Subject: [AJD] 1950 A surging at idle


>
>
>   Ok,  my love hate relationship A has an ongoing
> problem that I am going to try and figure out now.
>
>    At idle,  it will not run smoothly without about
> 1/2 choke.   I have been told that It could be a leak
> around the manifold, so I checked that,  It's not.   I
> have also been told to check the adjustment of the rod
> from the govenor to the carb.  I played with that
> yesturday and could make it a little better,  but not
> cure it.
>
>    What else shoud I be looking for?  I just took that
> carb apart and re-cleaned it.  I took my Ebay zinqer
> magneto off and put a distributor on it.  ("rebuilt"
> Mag bought from trusted seller on Ebay,  5 hours
> running time in 2 years.. bad bearings in the mag..
> grrrr...It sure looks nice though..)
>
>          Thanks for the help!
>
>                Chris
>
>
>
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