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I have a few puzzling questions on a 1964 tripower setup.

I have a situation where cyl.s 6 & 7 "do not fire" at idle after the car warms up.

I believe it is because the idle mixture is too lean. And I think it is because the rear carb is letting air thru even though the throttle blade is completely closed.

Does any of that make sense???

Off idle the car runs great. Spark plugs look perfect. If the car is idling and I plug off the air to the rear carb the engine dies.

Also, does anyone have a pic of the vacuum tank and how it is plumbed in ??

Another question. Where is the kick down switch for the automatics located??

Thanks

BajaGTO

prayers sent

carcrazyandbroke

If my old memory serves me correctly, I thought it was supposed to idle and run off of the middle carb until the progressive linkage opened the other carbs. Sorry, can't be any more help than that.

bob guzzy

You have a vacuum leak somewhere, I would guess around the brake booster.

That setup only runs on the center carb on idle, those end carbs have 2 positions open and closed they don't do anything else.

Those carbs can be vac linkage or progressive

hawkgfr

As I recall 64's ran off center carb and other two were Vacuum operated...the 65 and up is a much better set-up with mechanical linkage to other carbs..


You may have a vacuum leak. good luck.

Red99FRC

I had a '64 - the other two carbs were operated by a mechanical linkage.

hawkgfr

Then it was switched for the mechanical...It was easy and lots of peeps did it when they figured that out.

juiceman03070

The electric kick down switch may be INSIDE ON LINKAGE on firewall . I would also look for a fairly large plastic or rubber hose with a crack.