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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Erkson, Toby wrote: > 1. Shocks are easy to replace with basic tools. Jackstands are a must, of > course. And fun, too..:) > 2. Black smoke is oil, not gas. Your troubles have just changed... Really now? I've never had an oil burner burn black...Now, BLUE, on the other hand...:) Sounds more like excessivly rich, to me...:) (the smoke from running rich is black...which is why your tailpipes turn black...:) (the insides of 'em...it's safer to run stoich toward rich, then stoich toward lean...the lean'll overheat you fast as anything...:) (and over rich will wash the oil off your cylinder walls, and cause premature wear on the rings......;/ ) > 3 >Finally, I saw in a magazine that you can see how high your rpm is by > >connecting it to the carb and using a tach dwell meter. What > >part of the carb do you hook the clamps to? Acctually, you hook the tach/dwell meter (or any other tachometer) to the negative side of the coil (the same wire that runs to points in the distributer.. The black clamp goes to ground....:) later...david -- David Raistrick '69 Westy-Itchigo keen@finally.atlasta.net '66 SO-44 Westy (coming soon!) in Augusta Ga