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Re: Follow-up help

To: toad@nlights.net
Subject: Re: Follow-up help
From: msecres@ibm.net
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:28:14 -0400
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <TCPSMTP.18.5.11.-13.31.0.2446633616.3809474@nlights.net>
toad@nlights.net wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Ok, with the gracious help of many of you on this list, my 76 Spit is
> running again (thanks guys).  The ignition system was cooked from elec.
> ignit. module to wires so all, including coil, have been replaced.
> 
> First thing that I noticed was that my idle was now set way too high
> (about 1300), so I turned it down to roughly 900. Because I was out
> there and under the hood, I went ahead and adjusted the valve clearances
> (#8 was a little tight, otherwise the others needed no adjustment.)
> 
> The car still isn't quite right, though. The idle is rough (she'll idle
> at 900 and drop down to almost 500 and back again) and she's back firing
> quite a bit (a little when cold, lots when hot).
> 
Sounds like a timing problem to me, at first glance.  

--
Martin Secrest
73 GT6
74 Spitfire
Arlington, VA

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