Rebuilt 225 first start
Fired it up last night just before 9 pm. Poured my 5 qts of oil over the valve train and put the valve cover on. The glass fuel filter is temporary as I wanted to see if gas was getting to the carb.
Until yesterday I didn't even know if my "new" used starter was going to spin the motor. (It did off the car though)
I decided not to sweat the oil pressure thing and just jumped in and "Fired that mother up!"
It lit within a couple revs and died. Added some more gas and tried again. Fired...stalled. Third time it stayed running with a little throttle so after about 10 seconds I got out and turned up the speed to a high idle and ran it for about 15 mins.
The choke worked, the carb seems to be right on, and the timing was TDC from the get go. I bumped it up to 10 BTC and it liked that.
The temp gauge was reading hot when i shut it off though. Later I realized that maybe the dial on the timing light may not have set to zero.
I'll try to load a video from my phone.
Fired it up last night just before 9 pm. Poured my 5 qts of oil over the valve train and put the valve cover on. The glass fuel filter is temporary as I wanted to see if gas was getting to the carb.
Until yesterday I didn't even know if my "new" used starter was going to spin the motor. (It did off the car though)
I decided not to sweat the oil pressure thing and just jumped in and "Fired that mother up!"
It lit within a couple revs and died. Added some more gas and tried again. Fired...stalled. Third time it stayed running with a little throttle so after about 10 seconds I got out and turned up the speed to a high idle and ran it for about 15 mins.
The choke worked, the carb seems to be right on, and the timing was TDC from the get go. I bumped it up to 10 BTC and it liked that.
The temp gauge was reading hot when i shut it off though. Later I realized that maybe the dial on the timing light may not have set to zero.
I'll try to load a video from my phone.