Re: Miss at Idle

Posted by Steve On 2013/3/5 20:18:32

"It's minor, and it doesn't miss noticeably under acceleration or at higher engine speeds, but you can still sense it at moderate engine speeds if you pay very close attention. "





Hi DrewLA, all the specs you've mentioned, and set the engine at were factory settings on a new car 60 years ago. Due to modern variables, eg: gas, age of engine systems, carb, etc., it would appear that there isn't much left to account for a miss that you are focusing on. If the sp wires are cross firing look under the hood at night, if you see sparking you found it. If you're really intent on finding a leaking wire run your hands over the cables as well as looking. . Try changing your timing to 4 BTDC. Sometimes you need to find what works on older systems, the parameters "set to factory specs" sometimes are used as a guide only to get the car started and subsequent adjustments plus or minus are needed to get the car to run as you like it. Maybe it's the nature of the beast or maybe not. Since it doesn't seem to cause any significant problems, any of your future options will be trial and error. Sometimes it's worth letting things be until other symptoms appear. Hope this helps.