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1978 CJ5 Starts but will not idle
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chetfranklin
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Jun 13, 2012, 8:07 AM
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1978 CJ5 Starts but will not idle
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1978 CJ5
AMC 304
First, I would like to say that I am learning as I go, and have had some help from friends and reading various message boards.
My jeep starts and will run as long as I stay on the throttle, but as soon as a I let off to idle it dies .. pretty quickly. I rebuilt the carb (again, I am a rookie), and it immediately seemed to be running a little better. I feel like I did a pretty good job. The timing was off, but that was just fixed. I bought a can of seafoam because I wanted to dump that into the gas tank (and maybe even a small amount directly into the carb?) to help clean anything out of there that needs to be. I am not really going to do anything just yet but I would like to see some opinions and advice from some jeep experts on here. All help is much appreciated!
-Chet
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Hammer Time
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Jun 13, 2012, 8:39 AM
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Re: 1978 CJ5 Starts but will not idle
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Taking a carb apart and putting new gaskets in it is not rebuilding a carb. This is not something you can do yourself or you're are even equipped top do.
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