i just tried to drive my car down the street and now it bogs very badly. am i running to lean or too rich. i need help asap. i only went one house away and i almost stalled when i started off. please help me.

 

Did you install a pressure guage to see what the pressure is when you adjust it? If not you better go buy one.

 

yeah i did i figured it out. it was all the way lose and i was trying to adjust it the wrong way. its fixed now. thanks though.

 

one last thing. i installed a fuel pressure gauge along with the regulator. at idle i am running about 44 psi but when i give it gas i am running about 52 psi. so should i gauge my psi when i am on the throttle or at idle.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by beaterman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">one last thing. i installed a fuel pressure gauge along with the regulator. at idle i am running about 44 psi but when i give it gas i am running about 52 psi. so should i gauge my psi when i am on the throttle or at idle.</TD></TR></TABLE>

At idle, with the vacuum hose off of the regulator and folded over shut so it doesn't produce a vacuum leak, which can affect the gauge reading.

The 52psi of fuel pressure you're reading is probably at approximately atmospheric pressure...almost 14.7psi absolute (~100kpa). You might or might not have gotten the manifold pressure to or above atmospheric pressure at full throttle.

The fuel pressure with the FPR vacuum-reference hose off and pinched should be the same as the fuel pressure with manifold pressure equal to atmospheric.

Make sense?

 

hell no. i adjusted the regulator and then put the hose on and read the guage. if i fold the hose over the car starts to rev really high.

 

The idle will bump a little b/c of the vacuum leak, but it should settle back down.