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Re: car runs on one cylinder

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Subject: Re: car runs on one cylinder
From: "Michael L. Hendrick" <104405.1163@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 14:48:55 -0400
When I first got my '78 midget 'running', it was only firing on cylinders 1
& 4, verified by pulling the plug wires off 2 & 3.  Compression on 2 was
140, 3 was zero.  Found that #3 had the valves adjusted too tight keeping
both open slightly (I assume this was happening since a simple adjustment
brought the compression up to 150).  Also found that 2 & 3 were marked
wrong on the distributer cap so the cylinders were trying to fire in the
wrong order.

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