You adjust the ALDA richer until you can't feel any more power gain off idle. This may produce a small puff of smoke leaving a stop, which is normal. Adjusting the ALDA may NEVER produce more smoke at WOT so don't bother looking for that. If you adjust it too far, you'll just be wasting fuel.
=) -dm > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:34:28 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Re: ALDA max adjustment > > > In a message dated 7/13/2005 4:25:57 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Mine was un-touched. I didn't want to go prying apart the wrong thing > so I compared it to my 84 which had the ALDA adjusted. I pried the > little plastic cap off with a pair of gasket picks and then grabbed the > thin metal with a pair of needlenose pliers and rolled it off like a > sardine can lid. I've adjusted it half a turn and it drives better > and still no smoke. > > What IS the proper adjustment? keep turning anti-clockwise (as the > brits say) until ???? > > Is this alda thing related to the altitude compensator? perhaps they > are one and the same? > > Many thanks. > > > > Sealover.
