Re: [T3] First post and first questions.'63 Notch.

["Steven Ayres" <comwest@att.net>]

MattG=> I've taken the carb apart and cleaned it out, put in a 
=> fuel filter and everything is great.  

So, just to be clear, with the fuel filter installed and a good cleaning, your car is running fine and the hesitation on acceleration is gone, correct?

There are a couple of different source problems that can cause hesitation. Smooth idling doesn't really tell much about whether the carb is right, because fuel can be flowing through various (wrong) passages to make that happen. The transition to open throttle is the real test that the system is working properly, and the long intakes of the single-carb system can amplify problems. 

=> Should I be worried that (#3) is this much lower than the others?  

It's still over 100psi, so you're OK for now, and you don't drive it so much that it's likely to be a problem anytime soon. It will not fail catastrophically simply because of low compression. You don't mention whether you've rebuilt this motor. If not, I wouldn't worry about it, it could easily have come about very slowly over the life of the car. Keep an eye on it, that's all. 

=> Apparently the original dist runs number 3 cylinder a few 
=> degrees retarded 

Far fewer distributors were set up this way than many people think. If you give us the specific model numbers, we can look them up. 

Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ
'66 KG1600

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