[Spits] Weird engine idle

mark.jones at exxonmobil.com mark.jones at exxonmobil.com
Tue Sep 4 05:58:22 MDT 2007


Found the problem.  Two years ago I had the HS4s rebuilt, including teflon
bushings on the throttle valve.  While looking over the car Friday I found
one of the teflon bushing has completely out place, one big air leak.
Looks like I need to get the throttle bushing rebuilt again, but this time
in brass, not teflon.


                                                                                                                                       
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--- "Clark W. Nicholls" <clarkfot at cwnicholls.net>
wrote:

> Are you sure there's no spark only on that cylinder?
> Check the points gap too.
> Try it on different dist cam lobes, see if it
> changes.
> If the distributor is worn and the shaft wobbles it
> could be worse on that
> one cylinder perhaps.
> I solved my worn distributor by installing the
> crane/Allison solid state
> system.
> Let us know!


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