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Re: Intermittent miss--good news and bad

To: <Awgertoo@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Intermittent miss--good news and bad
From: "Chris Dimmock" <cd3000@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 07:47:47 +1000
Check that your front pulley is on properly. Put the car in gear, handbrake
on, grab the fanbelt and move it, while watching the pulley.

Good luck

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Awgertoo@aol.com>
To: <msalter@precisionsportscar.com>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: Intermittent miss--good news and bad


> In a message dated 7/29/2004 11:14:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> msalter@precisionsportscar.com writes:
> would suggest that the first thing to do is short out the plug wires one
> at a time to see if there is any change in the noise when a particular
> cylinder is not firing.
> Mike and all--
>
> I tried that one at a time and there was no difference at all--the noise
is
> the same regardless, just changed by the rpm's decreasing when I detached
the
> plug lead, but not lessened by a particular cylinder's not firing.
>
> The noise is easiest to hear at idle,and has a hollow sound which
decreases
> as the engine is revved.  It almost seems to go away as the rpm's
increase.  I
> do not have a stethescope and it is difficult for me to pinpoint its
location,
> but it seems loudest when I am crouching in front of the grille--what does
a
> timing chain sound like when it is loose and/or failing?
>
> Best--Michael





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