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Old 08-22-2014, 12:31 PM   #32
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Default Re: Tell me this noise isn't what I'm afraid it is.

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Originally Posted by Old Henry View Post
That is certainly a possibility since, just a couple of weeks before the noise started, I put my old Stromberg 97 carb back on in place of the Holley 94 I'd been running. Then after the noise started I checked the spark plugs. They were a bit lighter than tan, more toward white, so I checked the jets in the carb and found that they were the .44's I'd put in to climb Pike's Peak and probably too lean. That's when I put larger ones in hoping it would stop what I thought was just premature detonation but it didn't. Maybe the damage was already done.
Why did you pull the 94?
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