I've finally just decided to pull the head and have it reworked. There
are some indications I might have a bad valve. Might as well look
inside the thing and know for sure.
Here's a picture of the little beast as she looked when I picked 'er up.
http://home.earthlink.net/~kmmccarley/newmg.JPG
- K
Robert E. Shlafer wrote:
>Thanx, Gerard...
>
>Well...Kendel has a lot of good advice on
>this one and keeps finding stuff like the
>loose filter mounting, etc. so he's gettin'
>there.
>
>A Haynes or Bentley manual so he can
>become more familiar and he should be
>up and running, all notwithstanding.
>
>And, you can use a slightly warmer spark plug in an "oil burning"
>cylinder temporarily until you can get
>around to having the proper mechanical
>work done. Just don't "push" the engine.
>
>You may find however, an inclination for
>the oil burning cylinder to "pinking" on
>acceleration considering a goodly amount
>of oil in the combustion process will dilute
>the octane to that extent...a matter of try
>it and see.
>
>A good advantage of the SU (variable choke) carburettor is that it is
>very user
>friendly and will adjust itself to engine
>"condition" (vacuum the engine is capable
>of producing) by design. Gerard is absolutely correct in that these
>engines will continue to run very nicely, even when
>oil burning to some extent and down on
>power and/or fuel economy....but they will
>run and get you around assuming no
>consistently high highway rpm's/loading.
>
>And BTW....welcome to the list, Kendel! :)
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