I hope you are all enjoying getting outside and smelling like old truck again. I sure am.
Here are the latest symptoms.
Engine starts and has a lumpy bumpy idle.
I ran a compression test.
1-5 at or near 95psi
6 perhaps 10psi. Hard to read that low.
Tried adding oil through the sparkplug hole.
No change to #6 compression.
Stuck / burnt valve(s) right?
Next test.
Engine at Idle. Just for grins I pulled the plug wire off of #6. No real change. No surprises there.
Plug wire off of #5 - Motor lags
#4 engine lags
#3 NO CHANGE?
#2 NO CHANGE?
#1 engine lags
Checked plugs
#6 black/sooty (rich)
#5 rich
#4 rich
#3 clean as a whistle
#2 clean like #3
#1 rich
What the heck is going on? Why does this thing run at all?
What should be my next step?
-Joel
'52 3800 Panel
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