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Old 01-06-2011, 07:47 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Did you advance the ignition timing? Lean mixtures burn slower. We use to run so lean they would knock when richened up with the manual choke or accelerator pump. Of course we had the spark gap set really wide too. I think now days theres more turbulence in the combustion chamber.

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