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Noise and intermittent miss

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Subject: Noise and intermittent miss
From: Awgertoo@aol.com
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:42:02 EDT
I got a sump gasket today for my wife's 3000 and refit the pan, filled the 
engine with oil and, after pulling the plugs, spun it over for about 20 seconds 
until oil pressure appeared on the guage, then reinstalled the plugs and fired 
the engine over.  The frightful clunking noise--caused by the mysterious dent 
in the oilpan just interfering with the nuts for the #2 big end--was gone as 
a result of my having carefully banged out the depressio.  

My wife and I took the car for a nice ride and the "intermittent miss" 
(remember that) also seems to be gone.  It appears that putting 30W oil in the 
carb 
piston reservoirs richened it up enough to eliminate the low-speed miss and 
cruising-speed flutter (thanks Dave Russell for the good diagnosis).

BTW, I got some conflicting opinions on whether or not to pack the oil pump 
with vaseline prior to restarting.. Some listers, whose opinions I respect 
highly, suggested that the oil pump and line to the OP guage would be airlocked 
and not prime. OTOH, others also with much experience said that I should just 
pull the plugs and spin the engine till pressure appeared. I just didn't like 
the concept of sticking vaseline in the engine so I took the second route and 
had no problems.

Thanks to all for the patience and help--Michael Oritt

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