I have a 1984 RWD hatchback corolla. It's a 4ac motor carbureted. Just finished putting a new headgasket it b/c the previous owner put it in backwards. The car starts and at first idles at 2000 rpm or so and then when it warms up fluctuates up and down from 1200 to 1700 rpm sometimes even dies. :roll: when it gets to a low rpm the motor shakes like crazy and then might shoot back up to
2000 or dies. at first i thought it might be my vacuum hoses so i check them and look in a chilton book and match up all the hoses. nothing. :( then i grab a carb from my friends car(same car his was running fine) and put it in making sure the vacuum lines were good. nothing. :x i hear your not supposed to turn the carb upsidedown? could this be the problem? or i was thinking maybe my timing is off? any kind of advice would be good- posted
19 years ago