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The flu-like symptoms (coughing and sputtering and otherwise running poorly) are still there... I am not certain the choke actuator is working... I will have to check it out more in-depth tomorrow morning. All I saw this morning for smoke was a generally grey stuff, most presumably just...

update: Pulled the plugs, YES they were sooty as hell... Adjusted the idle, one full revolution, and the car quickly dropped idle down to what I'd consider reasonable. Also, the clunky shifting and knock have almost completely stopped. Twisted around on a pair of spring-loaded screws a bit...

Nope! No signs of any fluids mixing (oil, gas, coolant)... Also, one thing I just remembered..... I found an old carburetor in the trunk that looks identical to the one under the hood. Knowing the previous owner's handywork, I figure it's not impossible that the carb might need adjusting... It...

So I took a good hard look at the exhaust today while she was warming up to go home (yeah, in 80-degree weather, she still needs a minute to stop chugging and sputtering)... Since I changed the oil using some Mobil-1 10w30 and about half a bottle of Lucas synthetic oil treatment, it has turned...

You will also need the Left valve covers................. :glasses7: - CK

Unlike the vast majority of this forum, I'm not made of money.... I'm in the Army, and nobody joins the Army for the money. ;) Pretty much everything I'm trying to do to this car, I gotta wait for available funds before embarking; hence why I ask a lot of dumb-*** questions (making sure someone...

Hmmmm, maybe I'm just being paranoid.... It doesn't last too long, but it doesn't seem to act like any other car I've had when it comes to the condensation thing..... The exhaust is very sooty, and the car shoots crap out the back end (plastered a buddy's front valance while she was warming...

I'm not losing any fluids, and the smoke almost completely goes away after just 5 minutes of running. Taking it across post (20 or so mins), and the smoke goes away completely. It would be somewhat of a strange happening if it was vaporizing moisture; I'm in El Paso, TX... Desert climate...

Unknown mileage. Speedo stopped working a long while back, but the original (as far as I can tell) speedo odometer reads 11180 abouts... Not sure if it's 111k or 211k... It was an old man's pride and joy before I bought it... As for the cloud of smoke, I'm not sure... Once it warms up, the...

Would it be sufficient to just hold my thumb over the spark plug hole to get a go/no-go estimation? My comp tester is 1500 miles away. :S No, but it could be unrelated incidents, or a multitude of problems... Noticed a fairly clunky shift into R, but no real slippage or anything in any of the...

any idea where this is? I found two vacuum ports (one on the carb, one I forget where but not too far from the carb) that were blocked off with screws..... - CK

Well, it's not exactly standing up on two wheels when I floor it at a light, and I don't think it smells like a coolant problem... it smells AWFUL (not rotten egg, but very not good, step-pops reckoned to me a while back that burning coolant sorta smells bad but sweet, a la coolant smell)... I...

I do only drive short distances (a few blocks at a time), but I let her warm up fully before embarking, and it's a desert climate... Still, you could be on to something... I'm tempted to hack the y-pipe section out of the exhaust to see if the Cat isn't being too restrictive or something... - CK

Damn you're right... I didn't want to hear that! D: Now I'm sorta hoping the valve stem seals are rotten.... X) If it stops raining before the end of the work day, I'll try out your guys's suggestions. OH I FORGOT TO ASK!!!! Could it have anything at all to do with the exhaust system...

Didn't think of the valve stem seals... Also, haven't changed oil yet, but need to... Will probably do it this weekend. As for the plugs, the last ones were fouled with a very thick layer of soot, as is the exhaust pipe (though the exhaust is about 37 years old)... What exactly am I...

So my car blows white smoke quite a bit when cold, but once warmed up the smoke is greatly reduced but is still present. Also, it stinks... I thought at first maybe a head gasket, but oil and coolant are separate (no signs of crossing at all). Also, if it is burning oil, it is burning a VERY...

Well there's the problem! Cyls 5 and 7 were wrong on the distro! I noticed it when I was putting on the new cap. Funny how that "FIRING ORDER" thing molded onto the intake manifold coincides with the cylinder the next wire goes to. No more running problems! She's as smooth as the day she rolled...

'76. Too late to be smog-exempt.... Also, if it wasn't factory, someone installed one. There's a cat under my car, and I didn't run it over..... ;) Also, I pulled the car under a street light and started tinkering away. Headlight replaced, 7/8 spark plugs replaced (one came broken, gonna take...

The temp gauge does not change, it stays on the "off" setting no matter how warm the car gets. The fuel gauge works as far as I know. I got it on E, put 10 bucks in and it went up a notch. Haven't filled the tank, in case I need to drop it. The speedo stops at 80, and it goes up with speed... I...

Ya, I have a feeling I'm gonna have to tear the dash apart... Lets just hope she comes apart (fairly) easily.... Also, was planning a tune-up sans oil change (can wait, since she's parked until temp plates come); everything from the coil to the plug. Also, will play with distro timing and see...

So I just got the car, and drove it across the city back to post. Noticed a few things: 1. A quite prominent vibration that comes up during acceleration (higher speeds, why I didn't notice it when test-driving), and goes away when you let off the gas... 2. Backfiring and chugging, seems like a...