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Old Aug 26, 2004 | 09:17 PM
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Hello all,
Im hoping to get some expert help again with an idle prob Ive been having.The vette is an L82 and when first started runs pretty good and as long as its not sitting for an hour or so its fine but if I let it sit for a few hours and then go to run it the idle runs very low and choppy.I thought I might have solved the problem with replacing a couple of broken thermal vacuum switches but the problem still persists.
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Old Aug 27, 2004 | 12:02 PM
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are you getting any blue smoke on start up?

if so you have valve stem seals leaking oil into cyl's
this will cause problems on start up untill the
oil burns off.

R.
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Old Aug 27, 2004 | 12:12 PM
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Choke problem?

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