Recent content by Randall Hendricks

Thank you, I appreciate that a lot. I too am glad I got it fixed.

My finding is solid. Period. My fuel mixture was the same. My idle set screw the same. Timing the same. Only thing that was different was pickup gap. Yet somehow that wasn’t the problem according to you. But it worked. So magically it just started working right? No. Stop it. You’re...

Also "resetting engine" means putting everything back into the same position IE mixture screws same position, idle set screw same position. You cannot have a bunch of variables when trying to find a solution. You're kind of pathetic, not gonna lie. My findings are valid. My information is...

Good lord, you're picking out small excerpts and leaving out everything else that it correlates too. Reaching for something to validate your opinion much? That's a little embarrassing. The overall context is clearly that once everything that should've worked didn't I began trying anything and...

I am on many, many forums. Of them all this one is the most elitist I have ever seen. You can disagree with me all you want. If you think I am wrong then by all means, whatever, but I also think you are wrong. So since this is my thread, exit stage left. If you think the number of messages...

I didn't do anything with the timing that was any different than all the other times. The only difference was this time my timing light was broken. I had already tried all the way advanced and all the way retarded. If you read the entire post you'd know that. But y'all can look all you want...

It also takes SPARK to make a gasoline fueled engine run. Something that it won't get if the magnetic pickup isn't functioning like it should. This isn't about disagreeing, it's literal science. Sorry YOU cannot understand that. Faulty magnetic pickup = faulty spark. There's no reason to...

In case I need to further elaborate. There were no vacuum leaks, I checked for that. No vacuum leaks around intake, carb, carb base, brake booster, nothing. The engine was not just idling high on its own, and that wasn't the only issue. It would also DIE in GEAR. An engine dying when put in...

First, don't "son" me. Second I checked everywhere for vacuum leaks, there wasn't one. I didn't just change "something" the ONLY thing different the last time from every other time was the gap change. Period. And yes, this is a way to fix a problem because what I had was a problem, and what...

I have no doubt that it being a cheap dizzy is more than likely the main issue, and that this is a "fix" that might not hold up forever. My only reason for posting this was because THAT ended up being what kept my engine from running correctly. I never said that I should not replace the cheap...

Hey everyone, I wanted to take some time in case this potentially helps someone in a similar situation to mine. To start I had rebuilt my 318 stripping it down to the block, honed cylinders, put everything back together according to spec blah blah blah the usual engine stuff. HOWEVER, once I...

I will have to check, it's a 318 and off the top of my head I thought it was a 73 block. The converter freely spun all the way up until I mated the trans to the block and THEN it didn't want to spin by hand anymore. Which is why I figured the converter was in all the way and that was just...

Based on the pictures it seems like my converter was close to being in all the way, I was probably only off by a few millimeters. It spun free after it slid in to the 2nd position. Maybe I just didn't push it in far enough even and it was only slightly in place.

I think you are correct. The converter did spin freely until I got the trans and engine mated. So maybe it was all the way back even after the 2nd "clunk". It definitely sucks, because it was a brand new torque converter. But, can't buy experience. Won't let this mistake happen again.

Well as the title says my 904 trans lost every gear. This is a project car, the car sat for years and years and years so I drained the old fluid and replaced the filter. 2500 stall was added and I filled up the converter before I installed it back into trans. Topped off trans and then started...