[Spridgets] Holy Headache

[Larry & Sandi Miller]

Could be a sticky valve.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut at comcast.net>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] Holy Headache


> So I have decided to get a head done for the Holy Sprite.
> It is sporting a 10CG 1098 now that smokes and it has a semi miss on 
> cyl  #3.
> I changed the plug, it sparks everything is OK and it has 140 psi 
> compression, not great but not horrible.
> So why the miss at all speeds.
> If you guys remember when it fired up it had a burbling sound we thought 
> might have been carbs, but it is always there and if you pull #3 wire, 
> nothing changes.
> So I popped the head off that other 1098 (10CC) on the garage floor, it 
> is a 12G-295. I thought that was the pre smog 1275 head?
> Was this head used on late 1098s?
> If a 1275 head works on a 1098, I have a few ready to go. This will save 
> a few bucks in machine work.
> Hey, I'm a 1275 guy, these 1098s drive me crazy ;) as I found out you 
> have to take the 2 inner nuts all the way off the intake where on a 1275 
> you just loosen them and slip the intake (and carbs) off without 
> fighting with those 2 nuts. Different intake ears.
> My son has my Vizard book so I can't look up head numbers for a 1098.
> 
> -- 
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ