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Incorrect heat range for the plug and/or incorrect carb adjustment kills plugs. Often a matter of the plug not being able to get hot enough to...
NEW is short for Never Ever Worked. Unfortunately you can't trust a new part before you've verified it works.
That really is amazing. But it shows what a difference basically two things can make: longer lasting materials in the plug, and near constant fuel...
Good air cleaners are generally big air cleaners. The filter needs a lot of surface area to both flow well and clean well. [IMG]
At the same time, they used what was easily available for good prices. What was cheap and plentiful 60 years ago is often rare and very expensive...
True for a lot of people, but a picture of it would allow others to analyze it for you. Or better than just a picture, the entire recorded file,...
Possibly electronic module false triggering extra times, giving the tach more sparks to count... but that should affect all tachos. I'd throw the...
To be picky there were NiMh between NiCd and the lithium batteries, but you are absolutely right the Li/ion and Li/pol batteries are way more...
One thing easy to miss when you swap between different brands is that the temperature ranges don't match up exactly. You may find cross reference...
Safety is a compromise. In racing where crashes are relatively common and often occur at very high speed it makes sense to accept some discomfort...
There are loads of specialty spark plugs out there that do exactly what they're designed to do: separate fools from their money. Other than that...
You say that as if it's a good thing.
Loosely translated for the ones who don't speak swedish: "Yeah, boys, average Joe calls us drunks and uneducated, dirty pigs just because we're...
Indeed. I'll just add that the length is usually chosen to be tuned to the wavelength of the radio frequency to improve the reception, often a...
That would make sense. You need as much dwell time as you can get when you try to get a lot of sparks out of one ignition coil - there's not a lot...
The parallell dual points are meant to handle more current without getting burned quickly, right? A way to get more power to the ignition coil,...
"Condenser resistance"? What would be the function and purpose of that?
Will the oil pan still be the lowest point after raising the bottom point an inch? If it is, adding some simple skids under the frame or similar...
Well, obsolete wire insulation is probably not a huge selling point, so I doubt anyone sells a huge amount of it, and the one way to reduce prices...
Do take a look at plugs & wires too. Sometimes ignition coils die because another faulty part push up the voltage needed to make a spark (such as...
Don't know about the US, but here you need the receipt to make just about anything a business expense, and if you did get a proper usable receipt...
...and if a tap solves the issue, make sure to replace the offending part or permanently solve the issue in any other suitable way - you do NOT...
Adding boost to an "asthma patient" will indeed force more air into its lungs, and that will allow it to burn more fuel and produce more power. I...
Too hot. It ignites inside the tip because of the high temperature. You can cause this by heating into a corner for example, where a lot of heat...
As said, one or the other. Excess heat will burn the reflector over time so the surface turns matt, large headlights may handle it okay but small...
It should not consume a lot of current, but even so, it does it 24/7 if left on 24/7. Wouldn't expect problems in a daily driver, but why build in...
The manufacturers knew how to make engines not burn any significant amount of oil. Then came the modern times and fuel consumption became...
The block and head will indeed have large openings, those are required to hold the casting cores when they are cast, and then to get all the...
That's a nice couple if images from the war years in Sweden. The A on the first license plate says that car is registered in the capital...
The thing lots of people seem to miss is that all cast iron isn't the same. The original contents can vary very much meaning the original...
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