timing
Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 3:54 pm
hi, i am a first time poster and a beginner as well. my truck is a 1963 1/2 ton slant six 4 spd, single barrel carb which has rebuild date stickers still on it. i was told by the previous owner that the motor was rebuilt. looking at it, if they didn't rebuild it, they had it out and they painted it.
when i got it, it ran ruff and did not want to idle. i put a petronix module and coil in, new plugs, the old ones looked clean and new but i changed them anyway, new cap and wires, and new ballast. that made no change what so ever.
setting the timing has been impossible. although the marks and tab are visible when not running, they don't come together when running. i have the distrubitor turned all the way clokcwise just to get it to run like described
i've trien various positions with the firing order changing the wires one space in both directions and the best place has been the 1,4,2,6,3,5 order.
so what is wrong. i've thought bad distributor, distrubitor in wrong, timing chain off by a tooth or two? what do you guys think?
when i got it, it ran ruff and did not want to idle. i put a petronix module and coil in, new plugs, the old ones looked clean and new but i changed them anyway, new cap and wires, and new ballast. that made no change what so ever.
setting the timing has been impossible. although the marks and tab are visible when not running, they don't come together when running. i have the distrubitor turned all the way clokcwise just to get it to run like described
i've trien various positions with the firing order changing the wires one space in both directions and the best place has been the 1,4,2,6,3,5 order.
so what is wrong. i've thought bad distributor, distrubitor in wrong, timing chain off by a tooth or two? what do you guys think?