Author Topic: anyone else get a strange hard to describe noise from your engine?  (Read 1072 times)

Offline stinger

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mine sounds fine when first started then a min or so later I get this low tone from the carb that sounds like a French horn playing one note until the engine is fully warmed up then it goes away. 3 different carbs and dose it like clockwork,hard to figure out . it's a faint sound coming from the carb/manifold and starting to bug me. :clueless:




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Re: anyone else get a strange hard to describe noise from your engine?
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2015 - 10:43:12 AM »
vacuum leak?
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Re: anyone else get a strange hard to describe noise from your engine?
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2015 - 11:06:30 AM »
if it is its in the carb throat cause that's where it's coming from

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Re: anyone else get a strange hard to describe noise from your engine?
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2015 - 04:55:08 PM »
car was surging at cruise 3000 rpm so I caped off the vac advance. fixed the surging and no more noise. I'm such a novice

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Re: anyone else get a strange hard to describe noise from your engine?
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2015 - 05:34:56 PM »
But you're learning and that's cool.
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Re: anyone else get a strange hard to describe noise from your engine?
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2015 - 07:10:35 PM »
natural mechanical genius!
72 Cuda, owned 25 years. 496, with ported Stage VI heads, .625 in solid roller, 254/258 at .050, 3500 stall, 3.91 rear. 850 Holley DP, Reverse manual valve body.

1999 Trans Am, LS1, heads, cam, headers, stall, etc! Love to surprise the rice rockets with this one. They seem so confident, then it's "what the heck just happened?"

2011 Kawasaki Z1000

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Re: anyone else get a strange hard to describe noise from your engine?
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2015 - 07:29:48 PM »
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