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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 05:01 PM
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My ERST has started running on 3 cylinders, it idles fine and runs on 4, but with throttle it runs on 3 ive replaced leads, plugs, dizzy cap, rotor arm and fuel filter, done a compression test and that's fine, any help much appreciated
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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 06:54 PM
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wat compression is it
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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 06:56 PM
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could be coil breaking up under load mate
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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 06:58 PM
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it also tends to do this if u have a badly worn tappett
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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 08:05 PM
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Cheers for the replys the compression is ok about 120 across
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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by lewisturbo
Cheers for the replys the compression is ok about 120 across
that is a little low m8 but not too tragic
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 09:25 AM
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Is it number 4 thats missing?
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