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58 Ford 2 barrel...won't idle at normal speed
  • boo-boo
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    re: 58 Ford Fairlane 292ci.

    I must keep the idle speed way up high or it will stall out.

    Thanks for any advice.
  • rich cummings
    Posts: 80Expert Adviser
    sounds like you have a vacume leak-

    also -what do you have the points set at??--
  • boo-boo
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    rich cummings wrote:
    sounds like you have a vacume leak-

    also -what do you have the points set at??--



    Rich,



    I'll have to check the points this evening.



    I did have to replace a vacuum tube, so maybe I should check that out.



    Thanks.
  • rich cummings
    Posts: 80Expert Adviser
    ok -- does your engine have a double action fuel pump-- the top half is a vac pump it runs the wipers-- --check the hoses-- un hook hose and hold finger over the knozzle-- se if it idles-



    have you recently set the valves- [may be have a couple to tight -



    is the lifters clattering?[lack of oil] or valve adjustment.



    tell me what you have done to this motor - and when it started to not idle-- is this an auto-or standard trans-- if auto check vac modulator valve on trans and its hoses.

    it should be a ford 2 speed trans-- more later
  • boo-boo
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    Rich,

    I'll check the hoses tonight.

    Have not adjusted the valve.

    No clattering.

    Its an auto...will check valve/hoses tonight.

    Thanks much.
  • rich cummings
    Posts: 80Expert Adviser
    so what did you find out -- ???
  • boo-boo
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    Rich,

    Haven't been able to do much yet. Just re-sealed the driveway. So the 58 was land-locked for a few days.
  • boo-boo
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    Rich,



    Walnuts in the muffler. No joke. The car sat for 2-3 years before I got it. And apparently rodents were storing walnuts in the muffler. Great improvement from changing muffler and tailpipe. Thanks.
  • rich cummings
    Posts: 80Expert Adviser
    those y block were good engines-- the prob they had was -theres a right angle in the oil gally to the rockers--its in the head face---when it carbons up -no oil to the rockers-- --then they clatter -- - if you need any help just post --



    course you could put a FE in it --390 428-427- crits makes motor mounts so its a bolt il-- -



    390 and a C4 -- surprize a lot of people--



    btw--a 289 and fmx is a direct bolt in --
  • boo-boo
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    Rich,



    That is good to know. Thanks for info.
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