Greetings to all
I have been working on restoring my car since 1993 or so. I started out by having the engine overhauled which included sending my injection pump to Fairchild Industries for overhaul. I have been driving the car since the mid 90's and working on the body and interior.
Now that it is getting near completed, I have started the fine tuning. I have been getting about 14 Mpg which I knew was not right. So I have checked the CSV with everything checking out OK. Next I went to the WRD and noted that there was a lot of sucking air at the pump's air intake filter. So after playing around, I removed the upper shims from the WRD, which reduced the air flow substantially, but it still suck a little.
After checking the idle mix with the disengaged linkage, I noted that it was running really rich and idled at notably high Rpm when I adjusted the air screw. So I took out the only lower shim that I found below the WRD. The motor started with difficulty and soon the RPM was way up again.
Checking with the linkage, I found it to be running rich, still. I then went on to adjust the idle mixture knob and noticed that the wire to the CSS was disconnected. Although I knew that I wanted to lean the mix, I noted that it would not turn clockwise, so I turned it counter clockwise and after 8 clicks it would not turn anymore. I did connect the CSS and the car would not start. I'm stuck... can anyone give this poor back-yard mechanic a little advice?
