69 Camaro issue with RPM
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Get a can of wd40 or carb cleaner and spray around the base of the carb and all around the intake. It sounds like a vacum leak. Once the spray hits it you will hear the engine bog down. That will be your leak point. Check all vacuum lines as well
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Something simply is not correct about this article. You see I was in the business of selling and delivering fuels back then, mostly Chevron fuels to be precise. Before 1975, Chevron did sell a low-lead, regular grade gasoline, starting around 1970 or so.
Before the year 1975 came around, they dropped the low-lead regular gasoline, and came out with mid-grade "Plus" gasoline, which had no lead. So to be exact, by 1975, Chevron sold absolutely no leaded gasoline at all in California. They had 87 octane regular unleaded gasoline; 89 octane unleaded mid-grade gasoline, and 91 octane Supreme unleaded gasoline Not one of them had any lead in it whatsoever.
I have no idea what the LA Times speaks of at all, but they are sadly mistaken about leaded gasoline in California. I only know that I was in the biz, and they were not, so I am the expert on this matter, not the LA Times, and they are completely incorrect about leaded Chevron gasoline, sold in CA in 1991-1992.
To wit, they are sadly inaccurate in this article. California wanted lead from gasoline and paints _gone_, and that is exactly what happened. One could still use automotive lead-based paints, but only on some commercial vehicles, but not light vehicles at all.
Before the year 1975 came around, they dropped the low-lead regular gasoline, and came out with mid-grade "Plus" gasoline, which had no lead. So to be exact, by 1975, Chevron sold absolutely no leaded gasoline at all in California. They had 87 octane regular unleaded gasoline; 89 octane unleaded mid-grade gasoline, and 91 octane Supreme unleaded gasoline Not one of them had any lead in it whatsoever.
I have no idea what the LA Times speaks of at all, but they are sadly mistaken about leaded gasoline in California. I only know that I was in the biz, and they were not, so I am the expert on this matter, not the LA Times, and they are completely incorrect about leaded Chevron gasoline, sold in CA in 1991-1992.
To wit, they are sadly inaccurate in this article. California wanted lead from gasoline and paints _gone_, and that is exactly what happened. One could still use automotive lead-based paints, but only on some commercial vehicles, but not light vehicles at all.
That wasn't the only newspaper either... https://www.deseret.com/1992/1/1/189...ead-out-of-gas
Here's an environmental article that shows that the first city (not state) to actually ban lead was Chicago, in 1984 https://environmentalhistory.org/abo...tory-timeline/
The California Air Resources Board agrees with that newspaper: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/lead-free-not-unleaded and this (also C.A.R.B.) shows the timeline for 1992. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/lead-and-health
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