Carb Adjustment


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By duffer - 11 Years Ago
I just go my Carb rebuilt and it's back on the car. What is the best way to go about adjusting it? Cold start adj. or hot adj.?
1956 thunderbird 4 bbl teapot carb.
By paul2748 - 11 Years Ago
Get the engine up to normal operating temperature
By miker - 11 Years Ago
The factory manual should give preliminary adjustments for both the idle mixture screws, choke, idle and fast idle. Use that as a start, and don't be surprised if they take some fiddling. Might also need to reset the choke between summer and winter. The original settings didn't anticipate ethanol blend fuel.
By duffer - 11 Years Ago
Is it normal for the car to run high rpm when first started? (about 12.5 )  . Will it kick down when it warms up for awhile?
What is normal rpm?
thanks 
By miker - 11 Years Ago
Seems a little high, but cold starts are a balance between choke mixture and speed. Someone who's running a teapot needs to jump in, it's been too many years since I ran one to trust my memory.