| Braukuche |
Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:01 pm |
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Well, here goes. I shot a plug out of my hither to very smooth running '74 Ghia last week and so decided to replace the heads as it is my daily driver and I want it to be reliable. I replaced the heads with new ones with "Auto Linea" stamped on them, guess they come from Brazil. I put the engine back in and now it idles very rough. I have not noticed a big decrease in power.
It sounded like it was missing so I pulled a plug wire off one at a time to identify the bad cylinder and it seems when I pull one and three off the car nearly dies. When I pull four off it makes a slight difference, when I pull two hardly any. I replaced the spark plugs, I tried different plug wires, I replaced the distributer cap and I checked my valves everything is kosher. I am running a Compufire ignition module and the timing is set right. The carb is new. What am I missing? Do the heads need time to seat or something? I guess the next step is a compression check, but I can't understand why before it ran great and now it idles like hell.
--Dan |
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| thom |
Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:05 pm |
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Check:
Is the manifold bolted on tightly/correctly?
Are your plug wires in the correct order?
Are you valves adjusted correctly? |
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| 70 140 |
Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:09 pm |
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| do the compression test, report back with results |
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