72ChargerHawkeye
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Okay so it seems like as soon as I fix one problem another arises on my 72 Charger with a 360 4bbl. Since getting my Charger I cleaned out the gas tank and lines, rebuilt the Edelbrock 600 cfm 4 barrel, changed the tires, changed the oil, and changed the plugs. After rebuilding the carb and swapping out fuel lines, I ran her around the block and she ran like new without a hitch. About a week after this I put her up on jacks and changed the oil and plugs. This is when Hurricane Irma hit our area. Right before the hurricane hit I drove her up the gas station down the road to top off with fuel. This is when I noticed something was off. It fires right up and about after a minute of running i can push all the choke off (Manual choke.) When driving down the road it was having issues shifting. When it went to shift the engine felt like it was bogging down and when it did shift it was like there was unused gas pumped into the carb and the car would lurch forward as if i had put the throttle to the floor. Today I whipped out the timing light because the engine is still coughing a little on a slow acceleration even in park. Timing was a little off and corrected the coughing but not the shifting. When my father and I installed this engine back in 2006 I put headers on it and had to go with a Lokar kickdown cable to clear the headers. Today I thought that maybe it was kickdown cable had gone slack on me over the past week (in my dreams). After downloading Lokar's manual for the cable I adjusted it as if it were a new install on the carb side (pulling carb to full throttle and pulling kickdown cable tight with no slack and tighting down the cable end stop flush with the kickdown throttle body fitting.) After doing this I took it out for another spin it seems as if this adjustment has now changed from a delayed shift to no shift. I am at a loss considering two weeks ago everything was working beautifully and after an oil change and plug change it is now not shifting right. Anybody have any suggestions?