Date:         Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:08:42 -0700
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From: Phil Lacefield Jr. <phil@lacefield.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Subject: [WetWesties] Sorta stranded in EUgene
To: Wetwesties <wetwesties@yahoogroups.com>


I say "sorta" because the '84 runs, somewhat.  I left North Bend yesterday
at 8AM, headed for Faerieworlds, and the thing just would NOT go. I limped
into Opal Motors in Fife, they spent four hours on it swapping out distro,
computer, AMM, tweaking mixture...nothing worked. Compression and leak-down
showed a bit of leakage, but nothing too concerning.  $400 I didn't have
flushed down the drain for a used computer and many hours of tech time.  I
ended up limping along at a top speed of 48mph, because I just couldn'[t
wait any longer, and made it here 12 hours after I left.

Timing refuses to set, it's just all over the damn place.  When it's running
best, the timing is at 10 o'clock, like 30 degrees BTDC.  If you set it
anywhere near the top, it won't run. When you set it and rev it, the thing
retards instantly another 45 degrees or so.  It's crazy.  If you set it and
run it, and come back and check it again, it's somewhere else.

I am totally and completely stumped.  I'll be limping out of here Sunday
evening heading for home, but is ther anyone in Eugene in any way smarter
than I am about these things, that might want to come give it a look? Or any
suggestions about where the hell all my power ran off to?

Thanks - Phil

(yes, with net access in the middle of a field full of stinky hippies, go
figure :-)

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