In a message dated 3/28/00 8:12:14 AM Pacific Standard Time,
hollisbsa@hotmail.com writes:
> Mike,
> You are right. The top of the fan moves from the passanger side to the
> driver side. I placed a leaf on the outside of the radiator and it was
> sucked into the radiator and stayed there. Also I felt air moving back
over
>
> the motor from the fan. I also learned that the spark plug wire can put
out
>
> quite a poke if you touck it when the motor is running. It is now raining
> and boy did that sting.
This may aid in your over heating/higher operating temps......incomplete
combustion. What happens is the unspent fuel is reignited in the exhuast
manifolds, and heat is transferred back to the head.
>
> Do you think that the numbers from 25 to 60 at each spark plug is not from
a
>
> compression test. What should these be for the 216?
These probably were the old readings, but you mentioned a valve job too?
Wouldn't take but maybe 10 minutes and a $30.00 compression gauge to verify,
but if you were running that low on compression, it would also be a reason
the motor is running hotter....it'd be like you were always going up hill and
lugging the motor.
>
> I am using about 50/50 - it gives me about a -10 rating when I test it.
You know, I read that you did that...don't know what I was thinking about.
Also, another thing to verify is that the vacuum advance works, and that
the wieghts inside the distributor move freely, and timing is set to spec.
>
> Thanks AGAIN!
> Jim House
> 46 3104 Chevy
Good luck.
Mike
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