I’ve definitely learned a ton on this car adventure, and after;
*draining fuel tank (clean)
*cleaning fuel tank pickup screen
*cleaning front banjo KF pump screen
*cleaning and lubing pressure valve on back of Kpump (was sticking)
*new plugs
*new coil
*new distributor cap and button
*new fuel pump
*getting solid 30 PSI fuel pressure now, even when revved
I finally opened tuna can and was so happy to find the throttle body return spring was broken, I thought it was the answer to all my woes! But alas, it wasn’t.
Car was running awesome before all this, took it out and when really getting on it, poof, started limping. Obviously with the broken spring finding I thought, well, it’ll be back to running great again, but still stumbling, barely idling, can’t rev it without stumbling through the tachometer. With all of my maintenance items I can tell, car fires quicker, feels more responsive but still having these issues that I had right when the spring broke.
My question is, when the spring broke could it have set something out of alignment, in tuna can or the linkages going to Kpump? Dumb question, could it have messed up my timing? In the tuna can I can’t see how it could have changed anything, but I’m such a novice I just don’t know at this point.
Any and all advice soooo welcomed!!! Photo of my tuna can currently. 1973 2002tii