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Re: Timing Chain

To: "alpines@autox.team.net" <alpines@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Timing Chain
From: ellis838@concentric.net
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:26:19 -0500
Could be you fouled a plug .

Jason Raser wrote:

>I installed a new timing chain on my SII a couple
>weeks ago and just fired it up this weekend.  
>
>It has never started that easily.  I was very
>impressed at first.  But then I put a timing light on
>it and got wierd results.  The light lit up
>intermittently so I assumed the timing light was bad
>and moved on.  I figured that since it was static
>timed that I was okay.
>
>The car idled fine but was running rich.  I used
>colortune to lean out the carbs and got it running
>pretty smooth.  I let the car idle in the driveway for
>a while then shut it down.  
>
>When I fired it up again it acted like it was out of
>time.  It backfired through the carbs and just didn't
>want to run.  I brought it up to TDC and pulled the
>distributor cap and the rotor was pointing right at
>the #1 spark plug wire so I know the distributor
>didn't move.
>
>I wonder if anyone has seen something like this.  I
>suppose my next step is to adjust the valves again,
>but it seems so odd that it would start so easily and
>run smooth, then after shutting it down for an hour it
>runs so poorly.  
>
>Any ideas?  I'm very frustrated.  
>
>Jason
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