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As well as the carb, for sure, needing a good cleaning, make sure that the vacuum advance or the actual advance plate in the distributor is working. These dists were only vacuum advance/retard, with no centrifugal weights until '57.

Thanks fellows I cleaned the carb rebuilt it and still had the problem. We drained the gas put in fresh gas re cleaned the carb and wala no more problem. So last evening I pulled the engine out getting ready to sandblast the frame. Im trying to get some prices on a rebuild on the engine but im not sure if i should bore it out or not i plan on putting the dual carbs on and offenhasuer heads what do you guys think bore and a different cam???

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Flattie 53