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Replaced the head gasket, replaced a broken valve spring and lapped the valves, now when I start the engine the hose connecting the valve cover to the carb has white smoke coming from it, so much that if I attach it to the carb it chokes out, if I plug the hose with my finger it builds up...
Finally got the bot running from a previous issue of dying while underway, water was in the fuel, now that it will crank, it misses on the front cylinder.
i have taken the valve cover off and there are no issues there, I will be checking compression later today.
There is spark to that...
The motor is a 2005, I've had it for 7 years without any major issues. Last week we headed out and about 30 myinutes into the trip at around 3400 rpms the motor stumbled and died. I was able to get it started after about 25 minutes but there was a miss and it would not idle.
I was towed...
