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Old 07-15-2009, 05:49 PM
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My 73 keeps dropping the front cylinder. It runs fine for the first 20-30 miles then the front cylinder drops. It has spark running to it but it wont fire on it. Any body have any ideas.
 
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Old 07-16-2009, 12:26 PM
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how do your plugs look? did you try new ones?
 
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Do you have compression on the front cylinder? Could be a bad coil.
 
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Figured it out . My back pushrod front cylinder loosened up all the way so i adjusted it and it runs great.
 
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