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Re: overheating 1275

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: overheating 1275
From: type79@ix.netcom.com
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:56:42 -0400 (EDT)
Damn it and I could have pretended I was Graham Hill for a weekend! :-(
(Some listers will understand that reference.)

jay fishbein
wallingford, ct

-----Original Message-----
>From: Glen Byrns <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
>Sent: Aug 14, 2006 1:42 PM
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: overheating 1275
>
>Since I had put the mild 1275 into the Austin, it hadn't really acted like
>what I expected to be.  It tended to get pretty hot when run on the freeway
>and at red lights.  It over-ran and occasionally misfired.
>
>Friday I jacked the timing waaay over toward what should have been too
>advanced according to the timing marks.  Well now it runs cool, mileage is way
>up, power is way up, no misfires and no over-run.  Looks like the pained notch
>timing mark on the harmonic balancer was meant to line up with some other
>pointer on some other timing cover.  Miracle cure!  Now that its too late, the
>Austin is finally ready to drive down to BusterCluster.  Oh well, all that
>beer would have been a tight fit in the Austin.
>
>Glen

jay fishbein
wallingford, ct
http://home.ix.netcom.com/~type79/




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