Found the problem. Two years ago I had the HS4s rebuilt, including teflon
bushings on the throttle valve. While looking over the car Friday I found
one of the teflon bushing has completely out place, one big air leak.
Looks like I need to get the throttle bushing rebuilt again, but this time
in
Has anyone ever re-bushed a Spit distributor to
fix sloppy timing? Can new bushings be gotten?
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
--- Clark W. Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Are you sure there's no spark only on that cylinder?
Check the points gap too.
Try it on different dist cam lobes, see if it
: [Spits] Weird
engine idle
08/29/2007 06:50 PM
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Subject: RE: [Spits] Weird
engine idle
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Subject: RE: [Spits] Weird
engine idle
Ok, good...
How long has the Crane system been in?
Has it run fine for some time with that or is it a new installation?
Does the car run fine for some distance (10-20 miles perhaps) and then start
to die?
If so, when that happens check the temperature of your ignition coil.
If it's too hot to
Check the spark plug for #3, and the distributor cap.
If your test produced a spark on the other 3 cylinders, something is wrong
in the #3 circuit.
Could be the plug lost its electrode.
Try replacing the plug first, then the dist cap.
Clark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 1:24 PM
To: Clark W. Nicholls
Subject: RE: [Spits] Weird engine idle
Hi Clark,
Already replaced the sparkplugs, no change. As I was typing my email this
morning
