1971 Volvo 164

Went out to the car again on Sunday to check out the timing and the carburetors. It is idling pretty high at around 1400rpm. The air valve on the rear carburetor is not rising as high as the front – indicating a vacuum difference? When you pull the air valve up with [...]

In an effort to try to narrow down the starting issue, I put 5gallons of 89octane unleaded gas, some lead additive, and replaced the engine oil in the carb dampers with Automatic Transmission Fluid.  Next step was to determine top dead center and make sure that the distributor was set right.  Dad helped with his [...]