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Re: CIS mixture adjustment keeps getting lost. Why?



In message <199812180202.VAA07582@hme0.mailrouter02.sprint.ca> sbigelow@sprint.ca writes:

> Had Audrey in at mechanic to try and source a hard start problem. He
> notices that the mixture is *way* rich, and corrects it. Two weeks later,
> it's rich as *h#ll* again, it stinks of gas on start-up and I can watch the
> gas gauge go down, I must be getting 10 mpg.
> Why would I lose the adjustment like that? I haven't touched a thing,
> honest!

One of the failure modes of the control pressure regulator.  Get a fuel
injection shop to attach a pressure guage.

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 Phil Payne
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