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Thanks for the advice. Makes sense. Rebuilding the carburetor also helped out a lot as well. I learned a lot more about how the carburetor works in the process.

Well, since the recent posts were lost, I'll add more information again and repost the images. I've put the vacuum gauge on both (at different times) the distributor advance port (on passengers side of carb) and on the manifold vacuum port on the back bottom of the carb and get the same...

Pinching off the vacuum advance on the distributor seems to jump the vacuum up a few inches as well. Any takers? I don't know whether it's worth pulling the carb off and doing a rebuild or not, given that the poor idle might be related to the low vacuum.

Hey folks - I've got a 64 cuda with a 273 and I'm having some idling issues with the car. When I first got the car, I had a mechanic give it a tune up - he got it running smoother (replaced the points and set the timing - to what, I'm not entirely sure), but there still appears to be some sort...

Thanks torquehouse. I'll check those things out next time I work on it.

No takers?

I'm a newb and I'm having a hard time identifying the carb on my 64 Barracuda (3sp with a 273)... at some point a previous owner replaced the factory carb with what I believe to be a holley reman'ed 64-1166 carburetor, based on the box that the old factory carb was in. There are no tags on it...