[Spridgets] Now it starts + prayer

[David Woerpel]

Frank, I love it!  You always find a new way to puzzle the list...and 
yourself.  :-)

For those of you so inclined, I would ask for prayers for my 
Mother-in-law who suffered a massive stroke Wed. night and somehow 
manages to hang on.  May God call her home quickly.  Thanks.

Dave W.
Burlington WI


Frank Clarici wrote:
> And runs well.
> Turned out to be the header was keeping the bottom of the intake from 
> sealing.
> In pulling it off to check to see if I pulled out all the paper towels 
> keeping dirt out of the engine...
> I knew I pulled them out but did I forget one?
> Turns out, no, I didn't leave any towels in the holes. But Brian 
> noticed that there was a paint mark on one hole of the gasket but not 
> the other. Turns out the intake was rocking on the center header pipe, 
> not so much the intake but the heat shield.
> Some strategic blows with a BFH fixed it right up. It ran long enough 
> to set the carbs, now it runs well.
> I knew it was acting like a major intake leak but the nuts were tight, 
> the manifold was not damaged, who would have thunk it?