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Re: [TR] I'm stumped!

To: jimmuller@rcn.com
Subject: Re: [TR] I'm stumped!
From: "Kurtis J." <tr4driver@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:48:27 -0500
On 6/25/07, jimmuller@rcn.com <jimmuller@rcn.com> wrote:
> Geo Hanh wrote:
> > My guess (since we're guessing) is a stuck float jet.
>
> I am struck by how diverse the answers have been.  (I've never seen a float 
>valve stuck closed, but then, I've never used Grosse Jets.)  Each of the 
>answers could offer the real solution (excapt that some have already been 
>tried).  Bad dizzy parts, bad coil, air leak, jumped timing chain, split 
>vacuum advance diapharam (not mentioned yet), split carb diaphram? (not 
>mentioned yet), blown head gasket, a radiator water stream, clogged gas tank 
>vent, burned-out candle on the Lucas altar, the MG badge in your 
>spare-trim-parts box, etc.
>
> You just never know until you check.
> --
> Jim Muller

I didn't get around to a compression check yet.  The Lucas altar
candle did the trick. ;)

-- 
Kurtis
Russellville, Arkansas
1963 TR4 - CT19389L
1959 AH Bugeye - AN5L23250
www.geocities.com/tr4_1963


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