Number 3 exhaust valve spring is history.

Photos

Looked like this on valve

Actually in two pieces

Closeup

Closeup 2

Last Saturday, March 2, I was shopping for items for the newly remodeled house. The last stop was the local Wal-Mart. The time was dusk and there was a strong wind blowing out of the north. The temperature was a little above freezing and the wind made it feel like the low 20's.

When I started the motor the idle was staying lower than normal. One cylinder seemed to be intermittently firing and misfiring. By the time I arrived at the house the motor would not idle worth a damn and it was a struggle to keep it running to pull it into the garage.