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JACQUES
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    nice work I am convinced my friend 5.5 needs the same surgery,

    With all that fuel coming out up front but I am a bit worried seeing you took out the purge valve itself in the picture anyway.

    was it not required to prevent the loss of vacum on the up strokes ?

    the valve is needed to push out residual fuel/oil but needs to close shut keeping maximum upstroke crankcase vacum build up to suck fresh fuel/oil into the cylinders .

    as it stands now you may be allowing to much fuel/oil mix to be sent into your external bottle on the down stroke instead of 95% of that downstroke crankcase pressure pushing fresh fuel oil into the cylinders .

    or did I miss something ?

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    • This reply was modified 4 years, 12 months ago by JACQUES.