i just put a NEW five blade water pump with a better timing chain cover and water crossover tubemeaning no broken bolts.and i put a new fan clutch with new belts and hoses. i bought the car not running but i knew that it did run and i only had to change some parts. my question is what direction does motor turn and what are the cold cranking amps? im getting fire through the carb and it won't stay running long enough to diagnose problem or time it. the distributor must be off a little or something. firing order is correct one other thing when dissasembled down to timing chain the drivers side was a little loose and the passenger side was tight any suggestions?o No:
I had a problem sorta like this where I swore the dang wires were on according to the firing order, but I totally FORGOT # 1 is on the PASSENGER side. I was hanging with too many chevy guys back then, had me all cornfused. The lady I was helping out had some bass ackwards firing order which was correct if using the chevy orientation.
yeah as far as i know the firing order is correct don't have it memorized but i'm 99% sure it was correct. maybe it's the carb. i don't know but i can't time it unless it's running. i am to the point where i'll take distributor out and mess it all up. tell me if the play in the chain is correct.
Play in the chain is not good! Though I think it would run as long as it did not jump a tooth. Can you tell if the dots on the gears line up? If not, it may have jumped a tooth and that would cause some serious problems.
starting then dying right away is a symptom of a bad resister on the ignition wire. Put a jumper wire from the positive on the coil to the postive battery terminal. then when it starts it will get its 12v from that wire. you just unhook the jumper to kill it. the ignition gives 12v when cranking but then 7V thru a different resistor wire to run.
