throw 283 in garbage can and replace with ye ol 2f.
What are you working on?
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As much as I'd like a 2F, that ship has sailed.
More difficult to convert back to 2F, and more money than I'm willing to throw at it. Already have all the conversion pieces to repair what I have. Nothing against the 2F, but it's hard to beat the parts availability of a small block Chevy. If the 283 bites it I literally can throw it in the trash, and replace it with another SBC and still be money ahead of rebuilding and installing a 2F. I'm just worried I damaged something with the piston stop - that tap definitely wasn't there previously. Not sure how, the plugs were out and the crank was turned by hand...
It may have been smoking from the valve covers before - no PCV so I may just have not noticed it. I also dumped coolant all over the intake replacing my water neck so it may be that some seeped through the valve covers or something...time will tell...
What's a "piston stop"? Never heard of one.Checked the timing on my engine - based on the balancer mark, my 283 was idling at 60 degrees advanced...
Used a piston stop to determine the balancer was set to the exhaust stroke on piston 1, instead of compression.
Drew a new timing mark based on the compression stroke. The engine seems to like about 18 degrees advance, but with the vacuum advance plugged it is maxing out at about 30 degrees advance under load.
In addition, when I put everything back together, I now have a weird "tap" around piston #1 and smoke coming out my valve cover breathers.
Never ends...
A piston stop is just a little tool that screws into your spark plug hole with an extension that contacts the top of the piston as it approaches TDC. So you move the piston through the compression stroke (by hand) until it lightly contacts the stop, then you rotate counter clockwise until it contacts again, marking the harmonic balancer at each stop. Half way between these two marks is TDC. Works well if you don't feel like pulling the valve covers.
Cleaned the garage up so the 60 series fits.
Backyard demolition has begun. We started today by demoing the concrete patio slabs (4", 6", and 12" thick all done with sledge hammers. Two more slabs to go tomorrow and then layout and base prep can begin. Once this one is done, we have a new lower section to go for a total of 800 square feet.
Here is what we started with.
End of Day 1.
Here is what we started with.
End of Day 1.
Checked the timing on my engine - based on the balancer mark, my 283 was idling at 60 degrees advanced...
Used a piston stop to determine the balancer was set to the exhaust stroke on piston 1, instead of compression
Drew a new timing mark based on the compression stroke. The engine seems to like about 18 degrees advance, but with the vacuum advance plugged it is maxing out at about 30 degrees advance under load.
In addition, when I put everything back together, I now have a weird "tap" around piston #1 and smoke coming out my valve cover breathers.
Never ends...
Do you have a vacuum gauge? If so hook it into a direct vacuum source and tell me what it does? At idle it should be steady. If it likes to run that far advanced I would also be checking to see how much play is in the timing chain. Sounds very loose and could be your noise.
At idle I get a steady 15psi vacuum. Actually think I have it mostly dialed in at this point, but now my carb is flooding in biblical proportions. Engine chokes itself out on fuel after driving about 100 yards - fuel backed up into the venturis, out the accelerator pump, and leaking out around the baseplate gasket...but it idles and revs fine when sitting still, and doesn't seem to flood...
What carb do you have on it?
Qadrajet - All I can figure is that in changing the fuel lines out or having the air filter off, something got sucked in and hung up in the seat, but I would think it would be flooding all the time, not just under load...
Is the choke closing under acceleration?
I don't think so - I've got it rigged up to a manual pull-cable in the cab. I'm not seeing it close with the air filter off when I'm just idling it or reving it in the driveway.
If you were closer I would give you a diff carb to try. Or look at yours.
Appreciate the offer, but yeah 2 and a half hours is a bit of a hike!
Only things I can figure is
1. Something blocking the needle and seat
2. I suddenly get a ton of fuel pressure through the new lines (but the pump is 6.5psi so I doubt it)
3. Float is hanging or sunk
What doesn't make sense to me is that I didn't have any of these issues previously, and didn't fool with the carb too much...
Gary, we busted all of the poured slabs out by hand with sledge hammers, shovels, and pry bars. Looking back, a jackhammer or skid steer would have been really nice. The other part of the patio was 16"x16" pavers that we pulled up. Need to dig down now to get the base correct, PO installed the previous patio over clay and didn't grade it correctly. Some of the pockets of clay are so bad, our 2 year old was able to sink in.
Going to be installing at least 6" of sub-base and then 1" paver bedding. We have a three piece pattern Belgard paver going in then. This is our first time doing a patio like this, but figured we would give it a shot.
Going to be installing at least 6" of sub-base and then 1" paver bedding. We have a three piece pattern Belgard paver going in then. This is our first time doing a patio like this, but figured we would give it a shot.
I've often heard that headliners can't be cleaned. I say they can. Here is a before and after picture of my headliner along with a picture of the waste water from my steam vac.
i go after mine with a shop vac once a year or so, and that makes a huge difference.
It depends on what type it is. Your style will clean up with a little scope and water. Or a stern cleaner. I would not clean the glued on foam ones the foam will degrade.
That was a huge improvement looks nice!
I started ordering parts to get the goat pig back to fighting shape. Ordered full engine gaskets along with gear drive for the 350. I have the Trans to put in and axle bearing to do. Replacing the water pump and building some dual exhaust for it.
