I slept fitfully that Tuesday night.  Tomorrow should be THE DAY.

Wednesday morning, August 1, 2018 ……………….. With the dog locked safely indoors, Janet, Tori & I pushed the Michigan out of the workshop and readied it for another attempt at starting. We were not disappointed. It started right up.

HOWEVER, as you will observe in the video below, the engine did NOT want to idle down. Instead, it wanted to run very fast at high revolutions.  The only way it would start to idle down, was when I briefly shut the engine off and then back on again.  This is NOT correct. This is how we killed the #3 connecting rod bearing when I started the car back in 2017. This requires further investigation.  Why does it want to rev so high?