CARBURETOR: A professional shop did a diagnosis and road-tested the Duchess, concluding that the carburetor is not pumping enough fuel to the engine when it's under stress, i.e. going up hill with pedal to the floor.
The car sputters, fluffs, give a burst of power, then fluffs again. I've learned to vary the pedal an 8th of an inch or so, up and down, close to the floor board in order to make it up my hill.
The manual refers to carburetor spring that should be 1-1/2 inches, and if not, if more compressed, one could have insufficient fuel. I was wondering if I could fix this myself.
My suspicion is that I damaged the carburetor with a couple of very loud back-fires, when I had the ignition wires set up wrong.
If you are saying to yourself...O, I know what that is. That's an easy fix.
Please reply.
The shop also installed the gaskets I bought at the swap meet for the oil pan and vicinity and sealed that doggone overdrive solenoid . Not a drop on the garage floor this morning.
Also I'd like to put in a plug for Les Schwab Tire Centers. If you've never brought your Packard there for rotation, brake adjustment etc, try it. Here's where they are in the west. I'm right at 5000 miles. They rotated, checked and adjusted the brakes and hand brake. $20.50. They worked on it over an hour.
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