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Re: Starts w/o plug, but not with - why?
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Posted by MLP on June 17, 2005 at 03:17:19 from (204.97.175.91):
In Reply to: Re: Starts w/o plug, but not with - why? posted by Hank NWO on June 16, 2005 at 08:48:56:
I do not see how it can be electrical since only one plug fires at a time so it should not mater how many plugs are in it. I would guess it has some thing to do with fuel. With one plug removed that cylinder will not create much of a vacuum so the available gas gets sucked up into the the other three cylinders which now have a fuel to air ratio that will allow it to fire. May be when you had the carburetor apart a gasket may have been put in wrong blocking a passage or perhaps something got lodged while blowing it out.
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