82SleekCraft
06-18-2003, 09:07 PM
Hi all,
Sorry for the elementary question. I'm not a carb expert. Subject is a 4-barrel Holley on a 460 BBF. Boat has a stick for both throttle and direction (no foot pedal). One stick controls both the throttle linkage and the reverse bucket.
I had a problem with idling with a cold engine. Cold engine would die if I put the stick in the neutral position. Now that I've monkeyed with the cold idle screw, the throttle linkage will not return far enough to hook into the throttle cable with a cold engine. This would prevent me from going into reverse as the cable would first try to pull back the linkage past the resting position on a cold engine.
In a car setup, something like this would just add some slack to the accelerator cable while the engine is cold. But since the throttle cable on the boat setup is ridgid, I can't see how this would work. In my setup, the cable pushes the linkage when throttle is opened.
Your help is appreciated.
[ June 18, 2003, 10:12 PM: Message edited by: 82SleekCraft ]
Sorry for the elementary question. I'm not a carb expert. Subject is a 4-barrel Holley on a 460 BBF. Boat has a stick for both throttle and direction (no foot pedal). One stick controls both the throttle linkage and the reverse bucket.
I had a problem with idling with a cold engine. Cold engine would die if I put the stick in the neutral position. Now that I've monkeyed with the cold idle screw, the throttle linkage will not return far enough to hook into the throttle cable with a cold engine. This would prevent me from going into reverse as the cable would first try to pull back the linkage past the resting position on a cold engine.
In a car setup, something like this would just add some slack to the accelerator cable while the engine is cold. But since the throttle cable on the boat setup is ridgid, I can't see how this would work. In my setup, the cable pushes the linkage when throttle is opened.
Your help is appreciated.
[ June 18, 2003, 10:12 PM: Message edited by: 82SleekCraft ]