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It's running too rich.
By Dave Shoe - 03/28/2004 2:49:40 PM; IP 216.243.176.34
The excess soot is incompletely burned gasoline. It's likely you are dumping more gasoline in than the air can burn. Either that or you filled your tank with weed killer, but I figure I'd save that option for when the carb idea didn't fix things.

I'm not a carb or timing wiz, but I'm betting everything I've got invested in my previous post that the carb is the culprit and the solution. If I'm wrong, I'll fully refund that post.

I have had problems like yours on several occasion, and swaping carbs has always worked. My 1969 351-2V Torino is presently dealing with this issue. It "loads up" and stalls when running, but it started and ran perfectly when I parked it. It's coming out of storage today, so I guess I'll see how it's acting and will probably swapping carbs again.

For some reason, I've got enough junk carbs around here that I don't need to rebuild them too often, though I do have a rebuild kit, just in case.

Good luck.

Shoe.
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 RE: That, too. -- olddustyrelics, 03/30/2004
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 The drill bit test is a bit controversial. -- Dave Shoe, 04/01/2004
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