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Holley secondary not opening
  • nealkal
    Posts: 1Hitchhiker
    Hello



    I have a 350 chevy engine (not sure the year, maybe 70 -73) with a 670 Holley carb and the secondaries will not open. they work fine if I manually pull on the linkage with hardly any resistance at all. I also looked at and tested all the vacuums and vacuum diaphragms and everything was fine. No tears in the diaphragm or anything. any ideas on why it wont automatically open using the vacuum?
  • Ol racerOl racer
    Posts: 1,677Platinum Member
    I dont think you can pull enough vacume leaning over a fender and reving. I always tested my vacume secondarys by placing a dab of grease on the secondary 'stop' then road tested.



    Afterward the the vacume linkage made a 'shiny spot' in the grease verifying secondarys went to wide open....
  • rich cummings
    Posts: 80Expert Adviser
    Ron is right -- and thats a neat idea useing the grease--
  • Ted W
    Posts: 267Gold Member
    Do you have a split or open plenum manifold?