Re: [DML] Out.

["Michael Paine" <mpaine@xxxx>]

instead of letting it rot perhaps sell it?

> That's right. I'm "out".
> 
> Out of money, out of ideas and tricks, out of patience.
> 
> I have replaced the starter, and all of the fuel components. I have 
> spark on all 6 plugs, air and fuel. Too much or too little I don't 
> know because I have no idea where to set the CO screw and it was 
> likely tampered with by the idiot of a mechanic I let work on it in 
> December.
> 
> The wires are in the correct order. I have spark. I've used a timing 
> light while cranking the engine and I'm at 13 degrees BTDC.
> 
> The engine is so tight the new starter can barely move it when all of 
> the spark plugs are in. Obviously that's not right, but I followed 
> the timing chain procedure in the manual and verified it with the 
> people at DMCH. I hand cranked it BEFORE I started it. No 
> interference. No bent valves.
> 
> It shrieks like a beaten wife when it cranks because the oil I put in 
> the cylinders to lube it is washed away by gas.
> 
> As far as I can tell, when I pull all the plugs and start putting 
> them in one by one, and cranking the engine with the addition of each 
> plug, only 2 cylinders are making any kind of combustion. There are 
> 2 "thumps". As I add more plugs, there are no additional thumps, and 
> the compression gets higher and higher as I add plugs and the engine 
> slows down.
> 
> I do not, nor am I ever likely to have funds to ship this thing to 
> Houston or Long Island, and pay for repairs. I can pay for labor or 
> parts, not both.
> 
> Unless I have some kind of epiphany, 5335 will be another dead weight 
> in another guy's driveway, falling apart as time eats away at it.
> 
> 
> 
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