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With my pump at .89 still no smoke and otherwise power seems fine but this damn thing is way too shaky!!! Was never like this before the rebuild. I’ve checked and re tourqed all the mounts. still no air in the feed line but does appear to be some very small bubbles in the return line. Getting fuel t...

Shop did dynamic timing. I have since used a dial indicator and found my timing was way far advanced. Turned it back down to .89 or so and everything evened out. No more carbon. No more black smoke. Power increased but still isn’t great... I don’t expect much from 50something horse power but you alw...

750 miles since Complete bottom end rebuild with new head and rebuilt injection pump. Lack of power. Louder and shakier then I remember. Lots of black smoke on steeper hill climbs. Just took the new injectors out to find a butt load of carbon build up in cylinders 2 and 3. Doing a liquid molly fuel ...