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Old 05-19-2010, 06:20 PM
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Rick,

I am sure I tried adjusting the mixture screw back when this all started. Turned it all the way in and slowly brought it out to over two complete turns without much, if any change.

One thing I forgot to mention: Today when I put the timing light on the idle momentarily increased by a couple hundred RPM. I first had the light on the bad cylinder, but was not getting a strobe, but did have RPM readout, so I switched to #1 cylinder and got the same thing. Then I figured out how to operate the light (it is a new one!!) and started getting the strobe. So I switched the light back to the bad cylinder. The RPMs increased at both cylinders, but just for a few seconds…

Never seen that happen before. Anyone else heard of it?

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