well, i picked up a new car and the carb has been acting up. its an 82 gl with a carter carb. anyway, it idles too high. so i've traced it down to this thing. (seen below) i dont know what that is, maby part of an altitude or warm up cold start thing, but im guessing that its the problem.

 

symptoms.-- when its running, it idles too high, about 2 grand, but it varies. now if youll notice this little bugger has teeth on it and when i rev it, the screw adjustment sticks on the upper teeth causing it to rev up, and stay there. now the only way this thing moves is when the flapper in the carb moves, so does that mean that the vacume selenoid thing to the left of it is going south? or a leak perhaps? whatcha guys think??

 

damn, it seems that i cant manage attachments so ill upload them soon. sorry!

 

thanks

tyler j

ok now theres a buch of pics of the terd. now there ya go.

 

on a side note, the last pic, of the bushing thing, its a bushing for the shifter it rests at the pivot point underneath. does anyone have one theyd like to sell me, or could i find one EASILY locally, im getting annyed searching.

 

and how important is it to the shifting quality?? would it cause me to grind gears if it were gone?, could one be made out of polurethane goop?

 

thanks again,

 

tyler j

Sounds like the choke isn't pulling off - what you are encountering is the "fast idle cam" - it's operated by the choke, and is designed to make the engine idle fast (2k is about right) durring warm up. It should rotate out of the way as the choke pulls off when the engine warms to operating temp.... probably need to figure out what's up with your choke - make sure it has power, and that the spring isn't broken.

 

The bushing on the bottom of the shifter is availible from Subaru - my local dealer even stocks one still. Cost is about $4 - they snap onto the bottom of the shifter. Made of nylon I think.

 

GD

sweet, ok now if it is indeed the choke, would that also cause it to occationally rise up to about 3 - 4 grand while driving kind of like the throttle sticking? i understand at startup but while driving?? when it gets warmed up it usually settles down at about 2500, but again it really varies, not badly but everytime i stop the idle's different.

 

thank you,

 

tyler j

your best bet is to swap the intake and drop a hitachi onto your motor. Replacement parts for a Carter-Weber are almost impossible to find unless you know how to substitute in another kind of part that works. I had the same problem with my '83 2wd hatchback. It too had a Carter-Wber on it and it had the same problem. I could never figure out what it could be, even after I traded it for my '79 wagon.

ok now ive been pondering that as well. but does the intake/carb have to be of of another ea81?? because i have a project hatch with a ea71 and i want to swap over basically everything from this wagon to it, but not the jerry rigged pos carb its got on there now. im doubting it, and i havn't even looked at them yet but would that work? just swap the intakes and carbs, or at least swap the carb??

thanks.

 

or should i just go to a junkyard, and grab a intake/carb from a ea81. if so is there a particular year i should look out or watch out for?? or will any ea81 fit?

 

thanks a bunch,

tyler j

the intake off of an EA71 won't fit. You need to find one off of an EA81. years to look out for would be, 82, 83, 84 that have the same carb as you, 1 barrel Carter-Weber. So you need to find an EA81 with the 2 bbl Hitachi or just the intake, then find a Holley 5200 off of a Ford 2.3L, and then get an adapter plate to bolt it on:D

If the EA71 is from an '85 or newer STD hatch, the intake will fit. This is known as the "fat case" EA71. But most likely it's not, and won't.

 

GD