My first engine pull/rebuild - 1994 351w

[O'Rattlecan]

I couldn't resist turning the key last night even though the exhaust hadn't been hooked up yet.

It stumbled, bumbled, but it ran for about 20 seconds before dying.

The good news? It has air, fire, and fuel. The bad news? It didn't stay running.

It's probably a timing issue. I'll have to teach myself to use a timing light I suppose. I have a busy today, despite it being a vacation day. Too bad, I'm dying to work on this thing!

It sounded like 1000 Spartan Alpha Males roaring. It reminded me of the sound of thunder while the hooves of 5,000 wild broncos beat on the fruited plain.

Ryan

 

[Beach66Bum]

that's awesome Ryan! and your description of it running is a gear heads poem

 

[fatherdoug]

I couldn't resist turning the key last night even though the exhaust hadn't been hooked up yet.

It stumbled, bumbled, but it ran for about 20 seconds before dying.

The good news? It has air, fire, and fuel. The bad news? It didn't stay running.

It's probably a timing issue. I'll have to teach myself to use a timing light I suppose. I have a busy today, despite it being a vacation day. Too bad, I'm dying to work on this thing!

It sounded like 1000 Spartan Alpha Males roaring. It reminded me of the sound of thunder while the hooves of 5,000 wild broncos beat on the fruited plain.

Ryan

That simile and metaphor just came to life in my head!

 

[5.0Flareside]

I couldn't resist turning the key last night even though the exhaust hadn't been hooked up yet.

It stumbled, bumbled, but it ran for about 20 seconds before dying.

The good news? It has air, fire, and fuel. The bad news? It didn't stay running.

It's probably a timing issue. I'll have to teach myself to use a timing light I suppose. I have a busy today, despite it being a vacation day. Too bad, I'm dying to work on this thing!

It sounded like 1000 Spartan Alpha Males roaring. It reminded me of the sound of thunder while the hooves of 5,000 wild broncos beat on the fruited plain.

Ryan

no biggy. you'll have to tweak and fiddle with everything lil by little to get it right. I still am once in a while fiddling with mine to get the most out of it on speed density factory tune

 

[Ridgerunner]

Added quote by FatherDoug: It sounded like 1000 Spartan Alpha Males roaring. It reminded me of the sound of thunder while the hooves of 5,000 wild broncos beat on the fruited plain.

If the plain is covered in fruit wouldn't the horses slip and fall?

 

[Ridgerunner]

quote by Chris: It sounded like 1000 Spartan Alpha Males roaring. It reminded me of the sound of thunder while the hooves of 5,000 wild broncos beat on the fruited plain.

If the plain is covered in fruit wouldn't the horses slip and fall?

 

[fatherdoug]

quote by Chris: It sounded like 1000 Spartan Alpha Males roaring. It reminded me of the sound of thunder while the hooves of 5,000 wild broncos beat on the fruited plain.

If the plain is covered in fruit wouldn't the horses slip and fall?

 

[O'Rattlecan]

She fired & idled like sh1t last night, but it didn't die! I was able to rev, and once I got past about 1,500 RPM's, she smoothed out. When I got it up past 3,000 rpm's she was purring like a kitten.

I need to teach myself to use a timing light once I get the timing close enough to idle completely on it's own indefinitely.

Ryan

 

[O'Rattlecan]

Dad is coming over in about an hour. We're going to learn to time a distributor properly together, and fill it up with some fresh gas.

I ended up getting a siphon. The cheap siphon I bought is sloooooooow, but I don't care. The rear tank is vacated and the front tank is my next victim. This gas should be fine to mix in the other cars a gallon or two at a time. It's old but it doesn't seem to be horrendously rancid.

Ryan

 

[O'Rattlecan]

And Chris, if you need any tips or pointers on the MAF swap, let me know. I've had some experience with this now and know a few of the quirks.

Ryan

 

[5.0Flareside]

lol no need.. it'll probably get a FAST system and a turbo when I get tired of speed density.

 

[O'Rattlecan]

Yeah you have some flexibility with the totally mechanical transmission.

Ryan

 

[DNFXDLI]

Get a video of it you Samsquench

 

[O'Rattlecan]

I want to try to tune it first, then I'll video. Don't worry, I bought a high def (720p) camera about a year ago so it won't be trash. Even if I can't get it to do sh1t today, I'll still do a video.

Ryan

 

[DNFXDLI]

Sounds good. .

 

[mrxlh]

Dad is coming over in about an hour. We're going to learn to time a distributor properly together, and fill it up with some fresh gas.

I ended up getting a siphon. The cheap siphon I bought is sloooooooow, but I don't care. The rear tank is vacated and the front tank is my next victim. This gas should be fine to mix in the other cars a gallon or two at a time. It's old but it doesn't seem to be horrendously rancid.

Ryan

Rotate engine in running rotation til #1 cylinder is on TDC compression (intake and exhaust valves both closed). Mark the outside of the distributor with a sharpie where #1 is with the cap on. Remove cap and stab distributor so the rotor lines up on the mark. It sounds like you are 1 tooth off right now.

Throw some blue (marine stabil) in it and it will be fine to mix 50/50 in the cars you drive regularly. I might throw some techron in it as well. 1 oz. per gallon.

 

[mrxlh]

Well any updates yet?

 

[O'Rattlecan]

Hey man, I got it running. It idles okay now. Not smooth as butter, but it idles.

I got the transmission fluid in it, drove it around, and it was shifting really strangely. Most of the time it didn't want to shift, then when it did shift it was really late.

When I got home I pulled some codes, and it gave me 2 codes. The first code was 'TPS voltage lower than expected at idle.' The second code was "TPS voltage exceeding expected levels." So... it sounds like the TPS shot craps. That's an easy enough fix.

I took a video of it running while parked, it's on my camera. Now I'm trying to find where the wife hid the USB cable.

Ryan

 

[O'Rattlecan]

I found a cable on the entertainment center in the living room. It's uploading to youtube now!

PS, we still got almost all of the gas out of both tanks via siphon. They had a cheap $3 job at O'Reilly's, and it did the trick, albeit slowly. Dad and I splashed a few gallons into each of the vehicles in the driveway to spread around the old fuel.

Ryan

 

[O'Rattlecan]

Alright gents, the moment you've all been waiting for.

Ryan