I am traveling from Minneapolis, MN to Mobile Alabama. I have a 85HP Chrysler that runs horrible at an idle but runs great at higher speeds. I had a mechanic look at it after a few days of it slowly idling worse. Its got good compression but he looked at the spark and said it was intermittent...
I've been running my motor at low RPM for about 80 hours.
Slowly the motor started to refuse to idle and now it doesn't idle at all.
Does anyone have any idea what my problem could be?
I've done:
- Check on spark plug
- Checked fuel filter
- Carb is clean and not clogged
I'm stuck on the...
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