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Originally Posted by Wild Bill
-Needs valve job
-Flat cam/bent pushrod/broken rocker or stud
-Vacuum leak from carb, cracked intake, bad gasket, cracked hose, bad power brake booster, bad pcv valve
Checked for Vacumn leaks (but I need to do it again since I swapped intakes)
Old intake does not appear to be cracked.
New Gaskets, most hoses are new, except to the brake booster and the Booster is holding a Vacumn, PCV isw
-Worn out/stuck mechanical advance
Need to pull and re-drop the Distributor so I'll look it over real well.
-Worn rings/cylinders
Don't know, Compression Test indicates a fairly worn out engine
-Marginal fuel pump
Possible, I have one in the shed I could swap.
-Water in gas
Brned it all up and went and got 5 gallons of fresh gas
-Carb tune
Newly rebuilt, but seems to like 1 to 1-1/2 turns out on Idle mixture screws
-Coil, plugs, wires
Coil is Used I have 3 or 4 other used ones I could try. Plugs and wires are new.
-all of the above plus what ever I couldn't think of 
All or none of the above. |
Well, I'm closer and yet no closer !
I put the Edelbrock Performer intake on and it seems better , like it wants to Idle, yet the timing mark indicates in the 28-32 degree area.
When I put the new timing chain and sprockets on, The mark was on "0", Rotor pointing about 1' oclock (towards the steering wheel) and both dots on the spockets were TDC at the top. So this indicates that the Timing mark is correct. It was getting Late and Dark so I had to call it quits for the night.
I really wish I could rebuild this engine but I have nowhere to do it.
Andy