| Help for engine [message #179927] |
Sun, 12 August 2012 08:35  |
jayrabe
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Registered: June 2009
Location: Portland, OR
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Hi and thanks in advance for any help. Planning on hitting the road on Thursday, well, I WAS planning, for a weekend at Mt. Shasta then dropping my 76 PB off at Applied in Fremont to invest a few $$$ in some needed upgrades.
But this morning on my weekly drive it didn't. Precursor was last week when I heard a couple of Pphhh sounds, short, quick sounds, almost a pop, that in another engine long ago was backfiring through the carburetor due to what I don't remember, intake manifold gasket? Anyway, this morning I drove her down a gentle hill to get morning coffee and decided to take her back home instead of my usual 1/2 hr drive on Sunday, and she almost wouldn't make it back up the very slight hill. In all running very rough, though started quickly no problem (Howell EFI). Supposedly about 15k mi on "engine rebuild" by PO. The only work I've done other than spark plugs 1000 mi ago is replacing exhaust header gaskets (~2000 mi ago), but this new sound is totally different than what I was hearing when they were leaking.
In a bit of a panic. Hope someone can give me some ideas based on totally limited information. Thanks.
Jay Rabe
76 PB
Portland, OR
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