Re: My scout runs again-sort of

[Luke Nelson <lnelson@domain.elided>]

This sounds a lot like what I was going through with my Travelall.  IT
would idle fine and if you SLOWLY pushed ont he gas it would get going ok,
But if you applied the gas at any sort of quick rate (like you need to to
acceralate on roads)  It would backfire, sputter, cough, wheeze and all
that - the timeing kept going off too.

So my advice is......  CHECK THE POINTS!!!!!!!!! *I wanted to sound
dramatic :)

I am serious though, I did TONS of tuneup stuff except the points (cause I
thought that points were hard to do) and it still ran crappy (well it ran
a little better but not enough)  Then I broke down and got a book and went
to the points and it runs fine now.

Hope that helps.

Luke


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> OK guys here goes,
> I finally got my '67 Scout running again, well sort of.  It idles like a swiss clock.  Then, I press the pedal a bit, and the
> backfiring sounds like it's going to blow the hood off.  I've played with the mixture to no avail, then I went to the distributor,
> took of the vacuum advance and retimed it and it runs better, but not good.  My neighbor seems to think that because I can't get
> passed 2000 or so rpms that the valve springs are weak.  Were do I go from here?
> 
> Chris
> '67 800-makes a lovely lawn ornament
> 
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