Re: Miss at Idle

Posted by Steve On 2013/3/26 16:21:21

DrewLA with all due respect,
My post on March 5th:
"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."

FWIW: This poor horse has been ridden too hard and put away wet. With all the posts has anything really been solved?? Perhaps DrewLA you need to take the problem to a local mechanic that will be able to do what has been suggested by the posters on the website... who, in a concise and methodical way can check and eliminate all that can be an issue. There's been a large tome of experience and information given that tries to solve the issue: "To recap: For the most part, it runs smoothly" (not my words). Perhaps after all, it is "the nature of the beast".