Q: car runs lean

asked by on May 19, 2016

i just put a new clutch kit in my cobra its been running lean since i bought it 6 months ago, doing a full tuneup to try to resolve the issue what else could causeit to run lean.

My car has 58000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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