Hey John -

I love reading about your adventure. Can't wait for the next part.

Fuel percolating ? How do you know that this is happening ?

Ron

John -

Could your mixture screws be set too rich ? One thing that Daytona Carb mentioned to me when I was tweaking a carb, is to warm up the engine to operating temperature. Then shut it off and look down the air horn. If you see a smoky haze forming, then that indicates fuel dripping in after the engine is shut off. The cure they mentioned is to turn the mixture screws in and retest until that condition disappears. You may have to reset your curb idle and slow idle. This helped me solve a hot starting problem I recently had with my 70 Olds.

Ron

Yes, I also added a thicker carb-to-intake gasket. Between the two, my hard start issue was mostly solved.

Ron

The Mackinack Bridge is awesome to see indeed. I haven't been up there in a while, but it is always worth a look if one is close. I remember hearing about a road service that is available to help nervous nellies cross the bridge. Supposedly there are a number of locals who will drive your car or truck across the bridge if you're too scared to do it yourself. That could have been BS too though that someone was slinging around to impress vacationers. One thing's clear though and that bridge is high, high above the strait. There are some wicked winds blowing up that high, especially in the wintertime, so I would imagine there is some truth about some people being too scared to drive their car or truck across. Especially as the center lanes in both directions are not reassuring solid concrete slabs but actually metal mesh!. Even i get nervous about that! The metal mesh makes the handling squrriely especially if you have bias ply tires on your collector car. :stressed: