You may also want to check the timing w a good light &
see if you are "on". I had similar "lean" running
symptoms that were cured when I re-set the timing.
Found I was about 10 degrees B4 TDC & reset to 16.
Much better! (early R16)
Mike Harper
'66 1600
Charleston SC
--- Nathan Ruffcorn <nruff@famvid.com> wrote:
> Thanks Teddy and Marc for the replies! LOTS of
> great detail information was
> given. Your right, it does sound like an overly
> lean situation. I am
> *hoping* that all I need to do is check valve
> clearances, although I set
> them at the time of rebuild and just checked them
> again last fall-probably
> driven less than 250 miles since then. I hope to
> get to it within the next
> several weeks. Marc's info about uneven intake flow
> doesn't sound like fun
> at all. I will definitely exhaust all other options
> before considering
> intake manifold modification. Maybe the problem
> will cure itself (yeah
> right!)
>
> BTW, could someone forward intake and exhaust valve
> clearances for the 2L.
> All I can find is my 1965 "Glenn's Foreign Car
> Repair" (fun to browse all
> the old, ~strange~ foreign cars but no SRL's)-I
> think the roadster gremlin
> ate the other manual? <g> Man I miss the ListQuest
> Archives! Escribe just
> isn't the same.
>
> Thanks again for your input.
> Nathan
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