Q-jet selection
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From: At my Bar drinking and wrenching in Lafayette Colorado
Tech Contributor
Joined: Aug 1999
Posts: 14,380
Likes: 6,391
From: At my Bar drinking and wrenching in Lafayette Colorado
- Mixed-matched parts from multiple years Q-Jets (like airhorn from a Pontiac matched to a float bowl from a Chevy)
- Power piston stop pin cut off
- Idle air bleed holes plugged with lead plugs
- Incorrect jets and rods for application (often "generic" no-size parts)
- Incorrect float type (brass float)
- Incorrect float level
- Missing parts
- Internal passages plugged with sand from sandblasting process
- Internal metering orifaces drilled out or removed
- Secondary throttle linkage misadjusted
- Throttle plate broken from improper installation of shaft bushings
- Warped/damaged parts used resulting in no passage continuity for fuel passages through airhorn.
- Incorrect gaskets used resulting in blocked fuel and/or air passages
