Damn it and I could have pretended I was Graham Hill for a weekend! :-(
(Some listers will understand that reference.)
jay fishbein
wallingford, ct
-----Original Message-----
>From: Glen Byrns <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
>Sent: Aug 14, 2006 1:42 PM
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: overheating 1275
>
>Since I had put the mild 1275 into the Austin, it hadn't really acted like
>what I expected to be. It tended to get pretty hot when run on the freeway
>and at red lights. It over-ran and occasionally misfired.
>
>Friday I jacked the timing waaay over toward what should have been too
>advanced according to the timing marks. Well now it runs cool, mileage is way
>up, power is way up, no misfires and no over-run. Looks like the pained notch
>timing mark on the harmonic balancer was meant to line up with some other
>pointer on some other timing cover. Miracle cure! Now that its too late, the
>Austin is finally ready to drive down to BusterCluster. Oh well, all that
>beer would have been a tight fit in the Austin.
>
>Glen
jay fishbein
wallingford, ct
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