At this point I'm getting ready to take this thing to Georg at Valley Hybrids, because it is driving me up a wall.
Recently I had a continuing 30a fusible link issue, the pink wire would fry every time i turned the key to start the truck. That issue turned out to be the crappy duralast distributor i had put into this thing, changed it back to oem and my issues were gone.
Truck fired right up and idled beautifully (although it did make some weird metal-ish grinding noises momentarily) , and upon checking the timing with my light, it was idling at around 25* to my surprise. No adjustment to the distributor could've reigned it back into spec. So i shut it off, pulled the dizzy, reclocked it back to roughly 11 o clock after i set my crank pulley back to 0*.
Now the truck wont run at all. It'll turn over and shudder and get so close to firing up but it seems like it just quite doesn't have quite enough juice.
Some things to note at this point of the process:
1.) I have fuel and spark, when I pull my no. 1 spark plug, it wreaks of fuel, dripping slightly. And when i jumped my main coil/plug wire from the coil to the intake manifold, it reached out and gave me a little hug.
2.) The battery seems to be draining much much quicker than before. When the truck initially left me stranded on the side of the highway, i could let it crank and crank for what seemed like ever, take the key out and do it again 10 seconds later. Now, the battery seems to want to drain itself in about 5 seconds of cranking.
3.) I have some dash lights staying on when i take the key out of the ignition. This would point to my ignition switch it seems, and something to note about this specifically is when I disconnect my battery with the lights illuminated, they go off until i turn the key and take it out again. It would make sense if they would come back on when I connect the battery again (something sticking inside the cylinder or the switch itself) but this aspect I'm not all too keen of.
4.) I heat wrapped my main harness away from my EGR. Nothing jerked on or broken, just snugged away and insulated. pic attached
So to sum it up, I have spark and fuel, and the timing is dead nuts. What could this be?
Recently I had a continuing 30a fusible link issue, the pink wire would fry every time i turned the key to start the truck. That issue turned out to be the crappy duralast distributor i had put into this thing, changed it back to oem and my issues were gone.
Truck fired right up and idled beautifully (although it did make some weird metal-ish grinding noises momentarily) , and upon checking the timing with my light, it was idling at around 25* to my surprise. No adjustment to the distributor could've reigned it back into spec. So i shut it off, pulled the dizzy, reclocked it back to roughly 11 o clock after i set my crank pulley back to 0*.
Now the truck wont run at all. It'll turn over and shudder and get so close to firing up but it seems like it just quite doesn't have quite enough juice.
Some things to note at this point of the process:
1.) I have fuel and spark, when I pull my no. 1 spark plug, it wreaks of fuel, dripping slightly. And when i jumped my main coil/plug wire from the coil to the intake manifold, it reached out and gave me a little hug.
2.) The battery seems to be draining much much quicker than before. When the truck initially left me stranded on the side of the highway, i could let it crank and crank for what seemed like ever, take the key out and do it again 10 seconds later. Now, the battery seems to want to drain itself in about 5 seconds of cranking.
3.) I have some dash lights staying on when i take the key out of the ignition. This would point to my ignition switch it seems, and something to note about this specifically is when I disconnect my battery with the lights illuminated, they go off until i turn the key and take it out again. It would make sense if they would come back on when I connect the battery again (something sticking inside the cylinder or the switch itself) but this aspect I'm not all too keen of.
4.) I heat wrapped my main harness away from my EGR. Nothing jerked on or broken, just snugged away and insulated. pic attached
So to sum it up, I have spark and fuel, and the timing is dead nuts. What could this be?
