Thanks Mike. I think I'm also going to check timing marks on the damper and
make sure top dead center is truly that. It was when the motor was built
but with its age and the high revs it could have spun-hope not though! I
plan on working and testing on Saturday as long as the forcasted *snow*
doesn't stick!
Crazy weather in Illinois!
Nathan
Subject: Re: Plug Color Mystery
> 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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