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delliottg
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Response Posted - 04/20/2013 :  16:04:41  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
The gap was a bit off (too small), and a bit wet, but otherwise OK. I find it hard to believe the gap closed down, so I suspect someone didn't gap them very well before he installed them. But the variance was only about 0.003".

I ran the engine for nearly 2-1/2 hours without a stop, varying the throttle as I mentioned in my previous post while I was on the boat (home now). Not a single hiccup, I could go from 2000 RPM to 500 in a half second and it was happy about, ramp up from low idle to WOT, sure, no problem.

The one thing I did notice is that my inline fuel filter would run "dry" such that the gas didn't seem to be touching the filter media, but the engine ran fine like that. I wondered if the air inside the filter was being pulled into the fuel lines, but I couldn't get it to even hesitate as I manipulated the orientation of the filter, so that doesn't seem to be the culprit. However, I have rigged it in the fuel locker to be "upside down" so it's oriented with the filter media cone pointing up.
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Response Posted - 04/20/2013 :  21:44:39  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Not sure if this is going to work: [url="https://plus.google.com/u/0/103437977241149511176/posts/HGeJo245Ljk"]Here's a video of the engine running at the pier.[/url]
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