so, as a couple of you may already know.... I toasted the motor in my Cruiser. In my never ending venture of squeezing every last ounce of HP outta my 2F I made a bad mistake. I just aquired a nice Mallory mechanical dizzy for my rig. I figured full mechanical would be cool over vacuum being that it has 23 degrees of advance from the moment you snap the throttle.
so, i drop it in, check oil pressure.... OK 70 psi cold idle. I then I decide to take it for a spin and see what it does. the mistake I made was that I left the dizzy screw loose so That I could adjust timing as needed. Well, less than 1/2 mile up the road I noticed the truck working hard to move and saw oil pressure was 0 psi..... I shut it down to check things out and at that point I realized the dizzy popped up and was longer engaged to the oil pump.
Long story short, I spun the #3 rod bearing, toasted the cam, and a few other minor things..... So the crank is at the machine shop being turned and polished, have to order a gasket kit and new cam, bearings, seals, etc......
What a way to start the summer
so, i drop it in, check oil pressure.... OK 70 psi cold idle. I then I decide to take it for a spin and see what it does. the mistake I made was that I left the dizzy screw loose so That I could adjust timing as needed. Well, less than 1/2 mile up the road I noticed the truck working hard to move and saw oil pressure was 0 psi..... I shut it down to check things out and at that point I realized the dizzy popped up and was longer engaged to the oil pump.
Long story short, I spun the #3 rod bearing, toasted the cam, and a few other minor things..... So the crank is at the machine shop being turned and polished, have to order a gasket kit and new cam, bearings, seals, etc......
What a way to start the summer
best of luck getting it fixed
