Pinto Car Club of America

i have a 79 2.3 pinto that had a broken air cleaner stud so i tapped it out and had to take off the top of the carb so i could tap a new one in the gasket came off in one peice but when i put it back to gether it was missing and running rough its running a little better now but it dies when u put it into gear with out gas and misses every 8 seconds or so whats wrong can someone please help me ? ?
thanks ahead of time

lostandfound

Is your car a manuel or automatic? When you took the top off the carb did you have to tap it with a hammer or anything, or could the carb have gotten knocked? you might have a spacer to carb or manifold to spacer vacuum leak somewhere in there..... some gunk might have been sealing the leak until it got bumped and just broke it loose. How was the car running before you replaced the stud? Did you check the timing? Are the plugs nasty? Are they getting gas? Are they even firing?
Let us know how it goes....good luck
BGP

I'd chck to make sure all screws and nuts are tight on the carb. At the base and on the side of the choke actuator and on the top part that you had to take off.

i compleatly dissasembled and cleaned it then put it back together it got a lot better but i think i might have a vaccum or spark problem because it misses but it is random and i dont think the carb has anytihing to do with it its an auto tranny with new plugs and i had just timed it a day before and it was running reallllly good

2 questions.

Did you just get gas recently?
Has it been raining there, with the rain starting before the missing began to happen?

If you have a little water in the gas, either from condensation (high humidity or rain can cause this) or from bad gas (water in the storage tank before the gas is pumped into your tank), there would tend to be an erratic miss, and the engine might want to die at idle speed when shifting into gear. BUT

If it's an automatic transmission, it could also be dying when first shifting into gear from having too low of a curb idle speed, and the miss may be a separate problem.

i did put about 2 gallons of gas from a gas tank laying around that had gas that was about 3 days old but it has been low 100 high 90s here and really muggy so mabey it  could be gas i dont know how much gas i have left either cause my fuel sender is dead and i cant locate a nother one