Re: Proud New Owner of a 49 Packard Club Sedan

Posted by PackardusOctavus On 2018/12/2 17:08:11

Owen_Dyneto gets the cigar! The manual says that the idle mixture screws should be about 1 turn out. They were 3-4 turns out! I screwed them in carefully, and backed them out 1 turn. I set the automatic choke as in specs at index. I hit the starter and it.... fired right up! I ran it to get it up to temp. It was still running rich, but running. Once at temp, I noticed that the automatic choke flapper was still 3/4 closed, and it was still running rich. Time to find the WDO manual! Thanks for all of your suggestions! This forum really is a great resource. Now to defornicate the carb...