starting a slant six for the first time in 15yrs ???
So the car is a 1972 dart swinger special, that I used to ride around in when I was a kid. My father gave it to me a while back and Im finally getting around to getting it on the road. Problem is some of the the parts were stolen so im starting from scratch.
So getting points cap rotor and wire (luckly not plugs stolen) replaced, and the carb put on im trying to get it going.
So the setup as of now is a little "special", so bear with me.
Right now there is no heater core so the cooling system has
no water in it not that it maters there is no
alternator either so the w
ater-pump isn't going either (same belt).
It has
all new Ignition (points, cap, rotor, wires, plugs, coil) the
points are set to .020 gap. As of right now the
positive side of the coil has a 14ga hot wire straight to the battery for the best spark. (not worried about burning up the point just yet)
The carb is a
Holley 2280 from a 318 I think. Its been a while since I pulled it. With all the vacuum ports plugged except the dizzy port.
The
gas tank is for now my 6 gal boat tank with straight gas not oil mix, and a see through fuel filter.
There is no crankcase breathers hooked up to the carb yet.
The Problems
So I can get it to fire up and make noise just fine, but I cant quite get the idle to settle down without dying. I tried to set the dist to 10 deg but I need re plunge it a tooth over. One thing I did notice is that I could not get it to rev up without way more advance on the dist. I dont know whats going on there.
It did sit around for probably 10 years with now cap, rotor, points. So the weights are kinda rusty (cleaned it up before I installed the points)
Also whenever I try and open the throttle it bogs and I have to pump it to keep it running or rev it.
Another thing is if there is no suction on the crankcase will it smoke a little to moderately out the valve cover?
And the last question is do the slant's rattle when they rev up (Ive never worked with solid lifters) I know I have oil being pumped to the rockers (I can see it through the oil fill cap hole (that was stolen too))
or will fresh oil help that too?
