Thanks guys! Did you guys send your ideas by telepathy before I caught up on this thread? Convinced (still possible the carb isn't perfect, but doubt off enough to cause missing) of sticky valves, I gave them a few squirts of MMO right on the valve stems, cranked it over a dozen times, and a few more squirts. Ran pretty smooth, and kept it up before acting up, longer than I recall yet [maybe not 5 minutes].
It has a date with a duck foot for a couple hours in it's very near future, if it laughs at that it can have 3-16s [if I get around to getting some different tires on it :roll: ] for a while. Just a couple more little things, like swapping out the rear end oil, first. But also I wanted it running smooth enough to not worry about a miss fouling out a cylinder.
I'm thinking it will get a cup of MMO in the tank to keep the valves cooperating, but [being paranoid] didn't want anything that could treat the cylinder walls before the rings seat- after that though, all the better!
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