Hi Glen,
Glad that bit is sorted out. But I was once plagued with an engine that
slowly went out of time. Just a few degrees at a time, but after several
retimings it was runny really crappy. What I found was the outer perimeter
of the harmonic balancer was loose on the rubber and was slowly moving!
That might be what's happening to yours.
I simply let mine alone until it started to move forward off the rubber and
then I robbed another Austin America of it's harmonic balancer.
Later, Paul A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Byrns" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:42 AM
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
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