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RE: carbs=carbs

To: "'fred thomas'" <vafred@erols.com>, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: carbs=carbs
From: "Musson, Carl" <musson@satie.arts.usf.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:04:20 -0500
Ah - the wisdom of youth ...    Been there - done that - I think - can't
remember...   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fred thomas [SMTP:vafred@erols.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 1998 10:33 PM
> To:   triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject:      carbs=carbs
> 
> 
> Three days I have been trying to get the 3 to run right, back carb
> will 
> not adjust, just to rich, won't idle down timing seems wrong , just
> can't 
> be everything is new. Pull the carbs, not once but twice, both O/K,
> pull 
> the upper plate put in another, install my show wires a cap from the 
> trunk, she just won't run, install new coil, install new wires, pull
> the 
> carbs again, Dave at the TRF says rings have not seated take a 
> compression test and check the fuel pressure she can back up the carb
> if 
> to high, comp. 170 lbs across, fuel pressure 2 1/2, she just won't
> run, 
> neighbor comes by (street rodder) not your carbs something not firing,
> 
> it's all new dummy, I don't care pull # 4 plug, excuse me the police
> are 
> at my door seems someone was doing wheelies out front in a T/R 3. One
> NEW 
> DEFECTIVE PLUG, three days.

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