Re: shankle weber conversion behavior

["skippatnode" <skippatnode@xxxxxxx>]

I have been driving Alfas with Webers for longer than I care to remember and
this seems to be a common characteristic with the ones I have owned.  (A '67
TI that I put will over 100K miles on and my current Duetto with 180K miles)
And, I have traced it to one of two problems:
1.  The throttles hang slightly open when warm.  I cured this by installing
another return spring at the linkage on the carburetors.
2.  The advance on the distributor sticks in the advance positions and doesn't
retard as the enging slows down.  Only cure is to rework the advance
mechanism.

Skip Patnode
67 Duetto
Norfolk, Va


Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:34:58 -0400
From: "Todd Schinell" <alfatodd@domain.elided>
Subject: shankle weber conversion behavior

>I bought my 77 spider with a shankle weber conversion and euro style
cannister
airbox and I can never seem to get it to idle properly, or rather, *return*
to
idle after it's warmed up and driven.<
>Basically the only way for me to get my engine down to idle
speeds promptly once warmed up, is to retard my ignition timing.<
My ultimate goal is to convert back to spica, however that is a long way off
due to money and lots of missing parts (pretty much all of them)
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77 spider refuses to sit "idle" :)
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