Re: CIS mixture adjustment keeps getting lost. Why?

["Steve Bigelow" <sbigelow@sprint.ca>]

Phil Payne wrote...

> > 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.

Sounds more likely than the warm-up regulater previously suggested, since
it is rich on stone cold starts, as well as warm running.

Thanks, I'll have it looked at.

Steve Bigelow ICQ 22399818
Discreet Dungeons Ottawa Ontario
'84 5ks "Audrey", Zermatt silver, Husco armrest/cupholder, Bosch H4/H1
quads
'82 Coupe (previous)