360 issues-need help!

This may seem like a no brainer, but make sure your plugs are good. Nearly 30 years ago, I had a friend working on a pickup he had recently bought. It was an early 50's Ford that had a 292 V8 swapped into it. He and another friend (both of which, along with me, had been through vocational school training as auto mechanics) had decided that the reason the truck ran so crappy was because the timing chain & gears were shot. They pulled it apart & the timing setup was like new. They put it back together & then called me when they could't get the distributor back in correctly. After I straightened them out on that, they told me about how the timing set was in such good shape & they couldn't figure out what the problem was. I pulled the plugs & the side electrodes were about gone. :banghead: They drug me out to an unheated garage in the middle of winter for this! :violent1:

Sometimes it's easy to overlook the small stuff. :lol:

They didn't hear the last of it from me for a long time!



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