[Spridgets] Where do i start to fix this....

[Ron Soave]

I'm with you.  Additionally, when he reassembled the carbs, there may be O-rings in the spacer blocks.  Sometimes, upon assembly the rings can slip into the inlet path. The inlet vacuum will suck them into the air flow path and ruin your day. I just had this happen. Tim Michnay noticed the O-ring slightly falling into the space between the car body and the block. That creates both a leak path and airflow disruption. Fixing that immediately fix my problems. The valve lash only change your timing a few tenths of a degree. It will still run fine. Just for fun, I will adjust lash from .014 to .020 on the dyno and see very little change. The play in your timing chain has more of an effect than that. He'd have to have really screwed things up. 

Ron Soave

> On Nov 14, 2017, at 4:53 PM, Mark Haynes via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Ryan, I'd start where he started and recheck the valve lash. If he messed up on the timing when he set the valves, you'd have tight and loose valves and it would run poorly and, depending on how far off he was, it might only run on two cylinders (hence one carb 'not working'). 
> Then I'd run a compression test and see if his 'retorque' created leakage between the cylinders necessitating a valve job.
> Mark Haynes
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> Anyway he showed up and the first thing he did was adjust the valve clearances and retorque the head. Prior to this the car was running 75+ down the turnpike and idling smoothly at 900rpm
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