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Originally Posted by Kohnke Rebabbitting
Mr. 40 Deluxe, I just got off the phone with Vern, and he said to get your dads name so he could see if they still had any record of the engine yet.
If also an address, at that time.
Bruce will be calling me also.
After though here, if the valves have .016 thousandths clearance, except one with .023, that wouldn't make them stick, or miss, and as you have all the same compression, it doesn't sound like valves to me, it sounds like spark to me, and a spark jumping where it should not, or something weak.
Verns number again. 800-765-2926
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Herm, Thanks for your interest! I will try calling Vern in the AM. I just called to leave a message but no voice mail. I'm thinking one or more valves are sticking because at a fast idle (and sometimes normal idle) it will do the suck-a-shop-rag-up-the-tailpipe trick. This was common with 360 Dodge Magnum engines at the AZ Hiway Dept. where I worked. A Dodge 3/4 or 1 ton would come in with a miss and loss of power. I would walk to the back of the vehicle and hold a shop rag near the tailpipe and it would flutter in and out of the pipe. To prove to the boss it was valve seat recession I would pull a valve cover, pop off the rockers and lay a straight edge on the valve stems and it would teeter-totter on the high stem. Compression was low, too. Plus it's easy to hear, too.
By the way, I have the car in Arizona so I doubt anything could be done, but my Dad's name was Enoch Kittleson in Sherburn, MN.