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| Thread ID: 142349 | 2016-06-15 22:16:00 | car battery question | 1101 (13337) | PC World Chat |
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| 1422036 | 2016-06-23 08:24:00 | Snake oil like fuel stars. I spent 27 yrs as an aircraft engine technician so know a little about engines. But the suckers who bought fuel stars for their vehicles knew nothing. When I was a hose doctor in West Auckland I refused to connect them up. I do not know if it was just me but I had an overwhelming urge to smash peoples faces to pulp who sold them. On some English radial engine magnetos they had a HT booster coil buzzer which they called a shower of sparks. If the engine was primed and a cylinder set to just after tdc it was possible to start the engine with out turning it. Other mags had an impulse coupling which gave a good spark for starting when the engine was turning over slowly. I bought one of those tune spark plugs to tune the SU carbs on my B series 1800 never really worked. |
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| 1422037 | 2016-06-24 00:49:00 | I watched Les Pearson, ex Air Force mechanic doing a valve grind once. At completion he would invert the head and fill the firing spaces with petrol, with the valves sitting under gravity only. If one drop of petrol leaked out, it showed his grinding wasn't done properly yet. | Richard (739) | ||
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