Carl Miller
One of the Regulars
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- 154
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- Santa Rosa, Ca
Bit of an update on the Plodge -- the brakes are fine, no leaks, master cylinder is in excellent condition, and wheel assemblies just needed bleeding and adjustment. The tires will be here and installed on Monday. There's a bit of an issue with the engine though -- even after a full flushing of the fuel lines and replacement of filters and plugs it's still missing on one cylinder, and when they pulled the plugs, there seemed to be something loose in that cylinder. A broken piston ring or valve spring? A bit of carbon? They don't know yet.
Their guy who knows older engines wasn't working today so I couldn't pump him for more details, but hopefully he can look at it on Monday and let me know what's going on.
You could always pull the plug out of the offending cylinder and looking down in there with a pen light tosee if the top of the piston is chewed up. Is the plug damaged at all from something smashing into it? what did the old plug look like? Tan? black? sooty? oily?
Did you have the cap/rotor/plug wires replaced along with everything else? I once had an engine that had an intermittent miss and it turns out that one of the brand new plug wires was bad. Stuff happens.
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