Timing question
So today we started the car! Whoop whoop! Sounds good...and no leaks... when it's on. We ran into a little problem trying to time it and it left us scratching our heads.
Initially left the vacuum from the distributor hooked up on the carb oops my fault. When we took it off we couldn't get the timing mark to line up at TDC. Rotor and plug wire 1 both pointing in correct spot, towards piston 1 (we actually had to redo the wires on the cap 1 spot over to get this correctly set up). Cam was degreed properly with degree wheel. Balancer was checked on the crank and at that time the timing mark on balancer checked at the 0 on the timing tab of the correct passenger side timing chain cover.
My distributor seemed to be "floating" as well. I'd tighten it down and after that the rpms and timing mark on the balancer would change. We did this maybe 10 times and were left a little stunned on what the heck was going on.
I do have an electric choke but dont think that could have been the problem, but I tend to mess up the things most cant mess up lol.
Tomorrow we are going to use a piston stop and do a 3rd check of our workmanship of installing the camshaft. We are also going to install another distributor and see of that could be the problem, one without vacuum advance, since it only helps with mpgs and if I wanted those I'd drive my jeep that gets 30mpg lol.... I know I have an amazing person helping me and he would figure out the problem without me asking (but then everyone here would miss my stupid questions and all the fun things I break that no one else would be able to break) but maybe someone has run into this problem before as well and could offer what they did to alleviate the problem...
Heres a quick video of the car in action (after we realized my paint job was so good my battery ground wire wasnt grounding the car :p) and a couple of pictures. And there are 2 things I didnt paint that stick out like a sore thumb, other than the yellow wire... I guess I'll have to fix those next?!...
So today we started the car! Whoop whoop! Sounds good...and no leaks... when it's on. We ran into a little problem trying to time it and it left us scratching our heads.
Initially left the vacuum from the distributor hooked up on the carb oops my fault. When we took it off we couldn't get the timing mark to line up at TDC. Rotor and plug wire 1 both pointing in correct spot, towards piston 1 (we actually had to redo the wires on the cap 1 spot over to get this correctly set up). Cam was degreed properly with degree wheel. Balancer was checked on the crank and at that time the timing mark on balancer checked at the 0 on the timing tab of the correct passenger side timing chain cover.
My distributor seemed to be "floating" as well. I'd tighten it down and after that the rpms and timing mark on the balancer would change. We did this maybe 10 times and were left a little stunned on what the heck was going on.
I do have an electric choke but dont think that could have been the problem, but I tend to mess up the things most cant mess up lol.
Tomorrow we are going to use a piston stop and do a 3rd check of our workmanship of installing the camshaft. We are also going to install another distributor and see of that could be the problem, one without vacuum advance, since it only helps with mpgs and if I wanted those I'd drive my jeep that gets 30mpg lol.... I know I have an amazing person helping me and he would figure out the problem without me asking (but then everyone here would miss my stupid questions and all the fun things I break that no one else would be able to break) but maybe someone has run into this problem before as well and could offer what they did to alleviate the problem...
Heres a quick video of the car in action (after we realized my paint job was so good my battery ground wire wasnt grounding the car :p) and a couple of pictures. And there are 2 things I didnt paint that stick out like a sore thumb, other than the yellow wire... I guess I'll have to fix those next?!...
