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Well, we don't have a timing problem as I thought we may have. We went back and checked the engine and found that things were lined up as they should be (thanks for your persistence). I was confusing what I thought was a timing mark with the pin through the shaft. We are also getting a good spark. So, we had good spark but dry cylinders (other than #1). We had relied on 'feel' for compression, but when we checked it we found that compression was low on all cylinders, #1 being the best at about 75-80 (working from memory here!)We went ahead and pulled the engine out (very easy to do) and have had the valves (and seats) ground, but it didn't help the compression much, so... looks like we'll be looking at the rings next. I'm glad this is an easy engine to work on. I'll keep you informed of our progress. Sorry there's so much time between posts, but spare time is somewhat precious right now so we work on it as we can.
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