This car has been in the family about 4 years starting with my oldest son,now my youngest son has inherited it,it has been having an rough idle issue since we had the car...but could never really pinpoint the problem,swore it was a vacuum leak,it would run for a long time like a sewing machine and according to my son sometimes when driving the car up a hill it would stumble (miss),and when it did this it had a rough idle and would want to die,i sprayed carb cleaner around the base of carb and did detect a vacuum leak when it was acting up,i pulled the carb and replaced the gaskets,still seem to have a vacuum leak,i rebuilt the carb and it still ran rough,but the odd thing is when its idleing rough i shut the engine off wait 10 seconds and start the car up and it runs fine...........could it be a timing belt issue or does this car have a chain......thanks in advance.jp
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16 years ago