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A bit of help with idle

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geoldr

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Hello, so I am having trouble with my idle speed. I set it up and it works great when the car is idling, car doesn't roll backwards down a hill or anything. But if I run the car for 2 minutes or so, the idle gets very low and stalls it out. I am guessing this is a problem with some other needles? Low speed probably? What should I do?

Also, my front right wheels really wobbles, and I can't seem to figure out why, but I'm not sure how you guys can help me with that.
 
if you engine dies out after some high speed passes your HSN to too lean, if it is just idle'ing and then stalls after a couple of minutes then you LSN is too rich. Also as then engine heats up the needle settings change this is why you need to tune your engine when it is up to temp not from cold. Even tho this makes the engine a little bit more difficult to start you know it is going to be sweet when it does warm up.

as for your front wheel you need to balance them and check for broken parts that would effect is. To balance a tyre get some bluetac and take the dog bone out and spin the tyre and if it continually stops at one point on the bottom put some bluetac directly opposite that area. keep doing this until it doesn't want to stop in one area and will stop at any part of the wheel.
 
As suggested, probably your LSN is a bit rich (low speed needle). If you lean it, you will more than likely have to adjust your idle to compensate. A lot of guys run way too rich on the LSN and compensate by having the idle screw to far in. I've caught myself doing it a few times.
 
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