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Old 07-24-2002, 03:29 PM
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Avoid cranking the engine over unneccessarily. Make sure the carb bowls have gas in them. Bring #1 cyl to TDC on firing stroke (puff of air out sparkplug hole) make sure distributor rotor is pointing at the #1 plug wire. Make sure there's water in the radiator. If you have two fans, point them at the sidepipe body exits to avoid cooking the paint during inital fire up.

As soon as it sparks off, bring the RPM up to 1800-2500 range, vary it in this range for the first 20 minutes of operation to break the cam in.
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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