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Hi:
It was clearly these two cylinders that were missing and had low compression. I talked to the shop that did my work and he said he had seen a lot of chevy engines with this same problem and left it up to me as to pulling the other head. He has done it both ways. I hope I didn't make a bad decision.
thanks.

I'm assuming that your Mallory is a dualpoint, if so along with your other problems, you could have point gap problems. I'm not real fond of Mallory's point plate, I switched the one in my '66 Mustang over to Petronix.

NTFDAY:
No it's single point.

A fuel filter will cause that engine backfire noise. Also a loose brass fiting in the card. John

I guess I screwed up by not doing both heads. I got a question for any of you guys out there that would be so kind to help. If I fixed the head/cylinder with the tuliped valve, could this happen to the same head, different cylinder. I guess next weekend I will try and figure out what cylinders are not firing.
thanks
leonard