douglee25
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I'd get in on that trip if needed as well. I'm also only a couple hours by plane.
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At first start up, hold at 1500-2K until lifters pump up.I appreciate the offers. The main thing I can't do right now is lift. I have able bodied sons that can do that for me. After Monday, it will be a different story. Starting an 8 week round that by all accounts should knock me on my ass. We shall see........
I promise video on start day. I expect some tapping while the lifters pump up, but hopefully not a lot.
I am down to throwing the plenum on and dropping the distributor. I always pressurize the fuel system prior to putting the plenum on to check for leaks. Sure enough, one of the o-rings got pinched. Rail was back off 2 times before I got everything seated. I always have a 10 pack of spare injector o-rings. It is way too easy to damage them when rocking the rail on.
I'll be ready for a startup by tomorrow, but the kids and grandkid are coming to visit, so it will have to wait until later in the week, depending on how I react to my first treatment. I can taste it, I'm so close......
If only that's why they were showing up........All the best to you and your family. I wish my family would show up when I'm ready to start a new engine!
Turn the oil pump drive shaft a CH with a socket. Don't drop it.Nope, there was significant corrosion on the pickup magnets underneath the coil on the distributor, which was probably causing all the cross fire and misfires I was having while trying to start.
I disassembled the distributor, put the shaft on the wheel and cleaned it up nice and shiny. Reassembled the distro, and now for the LIFE of me I cannot get it to seat all the way down to the intake. It's almost like the gear is wrong for the new camshaft that's in the engine, but I DID have it all the way seated before taking it apart. The gear is engaging, and turning the rotor, but it just won't get all the way seated. I don't have any leftover parts.
Yes the gear is on the right way, where the tang and sleeve are at the bottom. Yes, the side of the gear roll pin hole has a dimple mark in it at the bottom of the gear, and that is lined up with the slot for the rotor that allows the rotor to point in that direction. Yes, the distributor is the same length as the old distributor, which I cut the gear off of to make a pre-oiler. It's coming within 1/2 of an inch of seating, or what I would normally assume to be the depth of the tang, but I really think the tang is engaging, but perhaps not. I've tried just about every angle I could to get the gear to engaged, and then be over the slot for the oil pump shaft. the distro is not "just slipping" into that conical gear. IT's tight. I am at TDC using various methods. Now I'm getting concerned that the balancer is not 100% on the mark. Hopalite has got nothing on me when it comes to BS engine shit.
What's your technique for setting your distributor, assuming you have one of the older round cap 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 setups?
I'm about ready to start drilling holes in this thing and let it go down.
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Ah yes. I had Ford on the brain.Same shaft on the pump?
Don't focus on #1 right now. Just see if you can get it to drop down trying different positions.
I use a long screwdriver for the pump rotation
Agree, I've been around the world a couple of times trying different positions, so far with no luck. Using a mac daddy screwdriver to set the oil pump shaft tang. Man that frustrating, 2 hours at a time. I feel like the definition of insanity.Same shaft on the pump?
Don't focus on #1 right now. Just see if you can get it to drop down trying different positions.
I use a long screwdriver for the pump rotation
Me. We were trying to start all last week and this when I could spend time on it.
Yes “old diz” probably 2 months on it before I started disassembling it. Got new cam and that distributor from the same place. ADT Ocala, engine builders.
A little. Maybe 1/4” each wayDoes the oil pump shaft have play in it.......side to side?