Had a hell of a day yesterday...
Eddie came over with the Dart and we had to redo a few things that the trans guy had done.... This trans guy (John Cope) is supposed to be good, but we found some issues with his work... The intake that he took off when he changed the lifters was not torqued to spec, the throttle cable bracket was bent waaay out of square, the stud on the carb for the accelerator cable was LOOSE, kick down was not adjusted, the header collectors leaked and we had to put new gaskets on them...
Needless to say, we will not be using him any more.....
There's supposed to be a different guy who is said to be a 727 trans specialist in northwest IN that we are going to try for our next trans jobs to see how he does....
Then when we looked at the distributor, one of the wires was only hanging on by a few strands, so we tried to take one from another distributor that I had.... That turned into a fiasco.... :BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead:
After changing the reluctor plate with one from my new distributor, we also changed one of the springs to a lighter one for a better curve, then we installed it and went to tune it, and there was no curve.... Just a straight timing from 1000 to 2500 RPM.... So we took it apart again to fix that, and when we were putting it back together it would spin free by hand, then get a hang up when we were trying to put the reluctor back on.... It started getting dark, so we abandoned that and installed another distributor that I had an Accel....
When we installed the Accel straight out of the box, we could not get it timed right... When we had it at 20° initial and 36 total, it would back fire... We backed it off to 15° initial and it still backfired.... I ran a sweep to get it to max vacuum at idle and it was at 34° initial.... We set it back to 20° initial and hooked up the vacuum advance, and it was way over 45° total advance and back fired even worse....
So we set it back to 17° initial with no vacuum advance with 34° initial and took it for a test drive and it was terrible... Very sluggish and the exhaust is now very loud - we think we blew out one of the mufflers with all the back firing while trying to tune it.... :BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead:
We didn't feel comfortable with how it ran, and it was dark then, so Eddie got a ride home and left the Dart here...... :mad:
All this headache over an almost broken wire...:BangHead: