{"id":26478,"date":"2016-04-25T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=26478"},"modified":"2016-12-02T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:33:11","slug":"how-to-properly-adjust-carb-idle-mixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/how-to-properly-adjust-carb-idle-mixture\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Properly Adjust Carb Idle Mixture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VJEXw4Kd4ks\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Your carburetor is the heart of your car, this video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lukecarsale?fref=nf\">Luke Finley<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ThunderHead289\/about\">ThunderHead289<\/a> on YouTube) explains how to properly adjust idle mix screws on your carb using a vacuum\u00a0gauge with a hands on demonstration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Make sure engine is fully up to operating temperature.<\/p>\n<p>2. Find source of full manifold vacuum (most will use full manifold port for vacuum advance.)<\/p>\n<p>3. Turn mix screws all the way in until they are seated then back out to 2 1\/8- 2 1\/4 turn<\/p>\n<p>4. Leave air cleaner on before cranking.<\/p>\n<p>5. Turn adjustment screws evenly until you get the highest vacuum\u00a0read possible first.<\/p>\n<p>6. Adjust carb evenly until manifold vacuum reaches its\u00a0highest point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This video explains and demonstrates how to properly adjust idle mix screws on your carb using a vacuum gauge.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":26479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5028,11,9],"tags":[3774,716,961,4381,281,4382],"class_list":["post-26478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fuel-delivery","category-how-tos","category-tech-tips","tag-carb-basics","tag-carburetor","tag-drag-race-101","tag-how-to-properly-adjust-carb-idle-mixture","tag-how-to","tag-idle-mix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Untitled4.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-6T4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26491,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions\/26491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}