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Gonna set fire to it

I wish, but it's not mine any more. Long story short, I sold my 78SC/73RS impostor to an enthusiastic new owner. Two days later I get a call @ 9:30pm that he's experiencing a loss of power/stuttering/shutdown.

I hop in my truck find him and take a quick look and find a vac hose from the throttle body to the bottom of the decel valve has cracked/ is leaking in 2 places. Get the car towed back to my work @ 1:00am. Swap out the hose the next morning and start the car but it's acting like it has a miss and wont idle. Blipping the throttle it has decent response but is blowing black smoke(rich).

I did notice that the tach bounces a bit upon start up for 10secs or so. Car is running very rich 10.2afr verified by a wideband 02 sensor I installed when I put the car on the road last year.

Cant' verify fuel pressure at the moment because I don't have the appropriate fittings. I ohm'd the wur and got this:


Applying vacuum to either ports shows no change in resistance. Neither does warming the unit with a heat gun........

Prior to this the car ran fantastically with the afr's @ 14.6 at idle with no load and between 12.6-13.6 depending on how hard I'm thrashing it.

Any help is appreciated

Oh and for reference is this the correct wur for my car?
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