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Any insight to this small problem would be greatly appreciated. I have a Rochester four barrel Q-jet currently on my chev blazer, 350 sb,

4x4. It is a great carb. Performs well, provides relatively good mpg. Chokes up on cold mornings. Overall, there is notning wrong with this carb. Except one minor annoying detail. After an appropiate period of time for proper warm up, the choke kicks down appropriately. But when I wait at a stop light it seems to take 30 or more seconds for the idle to return to a normal point, somewhere about 750 rpm. Seems the engine idle hovers around 1000-1100 for maybe even a minute. Then begins to slowly drop down to the normal range. I have tried adjusting everything external on the carb with out being able to correct this problem. I have adjusted my timing multiple times. I have adjusted the idle-air mixture multiple times. Like I said other than this minor inconvienience, this is a great carb. Any suggestions for what may be going on and how to potentially correct this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Willis Layton
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Are you sue that the engine is thoroughly warmed up? This carb uses a step cam for the cold idle and if the choke has not pulled off completely, it will sit on one of the lower steps of the fast idle cam. Also, is the vacuum break adjusted/functioning properly? You may have the choke set too rich or it may take longer than you expect for the choke coil to respond.

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Rich B

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Willis Layton

This may not be your problem, mine stalled randomly, at lights. The QJ has a gasket that has 4 bushings in the corners. This is to keep you from warping the throttle body, when torque it down. With age, this gasket shrinks, and allows air to enter around it, the bushings holding the carb in it's original position. The fix is to replace the base gasket, periodically. This happened once on my 70 Grand Prix, and twice on my 78 Jimmy, in

183,000 miles. You don't say what year -- Sticking advance weights will cause the fast idle you describe, but the engine will appear to run fine, otherwise. This is a common failure, in the HEI distributer, the rotor punches through, and the voltage jumps to, and erodes the advance pivot pins. This will creat red rust dust in the distributer, and is obvious. A clean up and replacement of cap and rotor will fix this problem, you may need more work if the pins are worn badly. Dan

base >Any insight to this small problem would be greatly appreciated.

Colorado Springs, CO My advice may be worth what you paid for it.

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Dan Dunphy

inconvienience,

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Willis Layton

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