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272 stalls after warm-up

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Guys, I have a 272 V8 with the Holley teapot carb. The carb has been rebuilt and has been running ok till the other day I came to a stop and it wanted to stall out. Had to put it in neutral at stops till I got home. This was after it had been running awhile(seemed to run better when cold).  When I got home I fooled around with the idle mixture screws and the idle itself and seemed to be idling ok, but when I put it in drive it still stalled out. I'm thinking it's a carb issue but maybe it's not. Any help would be appreciated.  
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You might try a Running Flush on the carb.  This is where (with the car in ‘park’ of course) you bring the rpms up some, then go to full throttle and about the time the engine gets to 3500-4000 rpms or so, you choke the carb and leave the choke closed with the throttle wide open.  At the point of the engine stalling, then open the choke and let the engine then clear itself out.  This cleaning method allows engine vacuum to force fuel through all the carb circuits thus flushing or rinsing them out.  If there is any debris floating within the circuitry and is loose enough to be sucked out, this will at times fix some of the simple carb ailments.  This may keep from having to pull the carb and do a more thorough cleaning on it.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)


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I'll try the "choke" method and see if that helps, thanks.



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