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OldGrayII
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For those that may not know, I did a Mini Rebuild on this Already mint T, New Timing Chain, Blueprinted Front Cover (Oil Pump), Un-Neccessarily pulled the heads thinking I had a slightly blown HG (didn't), so had the heads cleaned-up, and generally cleaned-up everything as I went along, well anyway, last weekend I finished everything and fired her up, and Couldn't get her to Idle, well at FIRST I thought it was simply a MASSIVE vacuum leak, as it was making a whistle noise and would not run below 2000rpm, After spending about a week swapping parts (Mass-Air, new IAC, Crank Sensor,etc) and calling Dan Smith (Local TR Guru, trouble-shooted over the phone) my friend Yuri and myself were certain that it MUST be something mechanical, after all the whisleing noise was bothering us the most, along with the No-Idle situation. I was minutes away from getting ready to start removing the front cover when a frind of ours stopped-in, and felt sure it was just a vacuum leak, well again we performed the spray gumout routine, except that this time he sprayed around the doghouse to plenum area, BINGO!!!! gasket there right at the bolt hole!!! took it off and sure enough I hadn't cleaned off the original gasket, missed that area somehow, well I cleaned it and threw another gasket on there, fired it back up and PERFECT 750rpm quiet idle!!!
Man I don't know how I missed that, but I guess I'm not so perfect after all, just think how embarresed I'd have been had I flat-bedded it to either Dan(Smith) or even Ron's Custom as I was contenplating doing!!!
Man I don't know how I missed that, but I guess I'm not so perfect after all, just think how embarresed I'd have been had I flat-bedded it to either Dan(Smith) or even Ron's Custom as I was contenplating doing!!!
