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Thanks all - very helpful!

Eureka! We got it idling very nicely. Turns out it was a combination of factors. The carb rebuild was key - it was missing the little cork sleeves around the two idle mixture adjustment screws, so they would creep a lot when the engine was running since they were so loose. Also, the messed up...

And we are near Roanoke, not Northern VA.

All, It has been a while. I had to go to Europe for business, and were just getting back on this. The current status is: We got the Holley carb installed, and it was still dumping gas. I say dumping gas because one of my employees noticed, as I had, a liquid sort of burping out of the Exhaust...

Guys (and gals?) Thanks for your replies. I am currently working on the theory that the problem is a vacuum leak and/or too much fuel. I am quite confident in the timing being awfully close to right on the cheese. Now to respond specifically to the various previous posts: DON - I do have a...

Mike, Thanks for your reply. When you say check the ignition timing, I think we have done that. Is there more to it than setting the BB on the needle with a timing light on cylinder 1? We also set the gap on the 6 pointed signal rotor thing that triggers the ignition. This is not a model with...

Hello. I am new to this forum, so thanks in advance. My 17 year old son scored a rough FJ40 for $500. It runs and stops, and is complete, though rusty. The guy who sold it told us the Holley 2 barrel carb that was on it was dumping gas (his words - not sure what that means) and so we bought a...