The 283 Rebuild Begins

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by jason65

Is it time yet? 10:00 am is what? Noon in Ok.

Okay - we'll slow the baud rate down a bit for the 'fly-over' states:

Originally Posted by MacAttack

S a t u r d a y at about 10AM, my time: That's when I'm planning to light her off.

[Desert1957]

Hey Mac,
Don't forget the pen and paper so you can draft another creative story why you didn't get it running.....LMAO!

I left this thread 2 months ago , just came back to check in and guess what? S.O.S......

Just find it hard to understand some of the reasons , "Had to Re-bend my trans-lines" (2 week delay) , "couldn't find copper line for my oil pressure gauge"..(2 Week delay) and multiple replies about kids,Dogs,Work,Weather..

and ON and ON and ON.....WTF?

Quit being a lilttle Girl , Take the stupid tarp off it , put fuel in it , charge the battery and light that P.O.S. 283 up!!!!

Jesus Christ I could have had that thing running in a friggen Snow Storm by now!

Desert

[joe231]

dunno, but that sounds mean spirited there Desert.....
I'm calling Oprah ad Dr. Phil on you

Mac, your pics are killing me over here

you got a giant cache of those or do you find them online as you need them?

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by joe231

Mac, your pics are killing me over here

you got a giant cache of those or do you find them online as you need them?

The Great and Powerful Oz never reveals his secrets!

[Desert1957]

....

Just Kidding , Trying to relight the spark under Mac.

Desert

[Desert1957]

....

Just Kidding , Trying to relight the spark under Mac.

Desert

[protrash64]

I hafta agree with Joe on those pics, Mac....I think they're better than the smileys.

[joe231]

IS IT RUNNING YET or IIRY


I know cali is 2 hours behind us....

[MacAttack]

Gas flowing, batteries cranking, HEI hotwired perfectly,

Much Fire From The 2-Barrel!

[sidthirteen]

Don't worry Mac it's just a "burp"....

[joe231]

timing off?

dizzy 180* out?

[Desert1957]

Come on you WINNIE , pic yourself up and try again. One failed no start is not going to buy you 2 more months of posting , Its only worth about the time you stopped to come here and post this. Get your Butt back outside and fire that POS up!

Desert

[MacAttack]

Don’t know what it is guys - stabbed the distributor just like I did with the Chevelle’s crate motor. Just doesn’t want to go. As I’ve stated a couple of times before - I’ve got a single weekly window of two hours on Saturday morning for this stuff, and no matter what we did, or where we moved the HEI - all it did was pop back through the carburator.

We rechecked the harmonic balancer mark with the compression reading on cylinder number one again - and it’s right where it should be (TDC). Because of other employment and family commitments on the weekends - it is what it is and I won’t be able to even look at it again until Saturday.

Personally, I think it’s all the negative karma by some in this forum:

Originally Posted by Desert1957

Get your Butt back outside and fire that POS up!Desert

[shrunken66stroker]

I know you're not just sitting on the couch today Mac. Any rumblings from project slow-mo?

[daverod]

Slow-mo thats so wrong

[joe231]

man I have been throwing all the positive karma west that I can manage...maybe it made a wrong turn at Albuquerque

[jason65]

Have you tried rotateing your plugwires clockwise 1 spot and playing with the timing?

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by jason65

Have you tried rotateing your plugwires clockwise 1 spot and playing with the timing?

No, no I haven't Jason. And that sounds most logical. It's either 1 spot off or 180 off (less likely). If it's 180 off - it could be trying to fire on the exhaust stroke(?) That's all I can think of in that regard, and I've heard that from dozens of guys before, but this thing almost sounds like it wants to go - but I just can't crank the distributor over far enough.

Good input buddy.

(not like that other guy)



(Buddha's pissed)

Mac.

[joe231]

in my experience, with the distributor 180* out it will try to run but will crank over slow and then fast then slow, pop and back fire through the carb, sometimes even blow fire up through the carb too.....doesn't seem to matter how many times I have swapped out distributors I inevitably get the dist 180* out....or the last one I did, I accidentally put my wires on counter-clockwise, it kinda acted the same way then too...I knew it need to be clockwise but for some reason I looked at the cap and put the wires on backwards.

set it to TDC and just line up the rotor with your number one on the cap, that should get you close enough to run

oh and make sure you got the firing order right

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by joe231

oh and make sure you got the firing order right

Yeah - those numbers on the original intake manifold (used again on this motor) were the first thing I checked. It seemed to crank fairly consistently, albeit tight at first (which was expected) and I did get some nice flames out the carb (who needs eyebrows anyway?)



I hope I don't have to crank the dizzy half way around though, cause that little square plug's going to be right up against the firewall.

[padresag]

you have to pull the distr up and turn the shaft 180. just time it back to nbr 1
ron

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by padresag

you have to pull the distr up and turn the shaft 180. just time it back to nbr 1
ron

Ron, sounds like the easy way to go. TDC #1 cylinder with plug out - to feel the compression stroke, take cap off - to note where the rotor's pointing, un-clamp the HEI body enough to turn the rotor to the proper position, drop the HEI back in, cap back on, plug in and wire back on and light her up, right?

[padresag]

voom-voom
ron

[joe231]

if you are just moving it 180* there is no need to bring it to TDC, just pop the cap, mark where the rotor, is loosen the clamp, pull the distributor up enough to clear the cam and rotate the rotor 180* drop it back in, might take a couple stabs to get it just right, as you know the dist gear has to mesh with the cam gear and the oil pump drive

or you can use it as an opportunity to check TDC again....I have had to pull the valve cover and rotate the engine through all 4 strokes while watching the valves just to be sure of TDC before, the timing mark on the damper isn't always right, or if your valves aren't adjusted correctly you could have trouble finding TDC...

so now we gotta wait a whole 4 days to hear the continuation of this soap opera???

oh and...

Originally Posted by MacAttack

I hope I don't have to crank the dizzy half way around though, cause that little square plug's going to be right up against the firewall.

I thought that was a joke
do we need to be worried????

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by joe231

or you can use it as an opportunity to check TDC again....I have had to pull the valve cover and rotate the engine through all 4 strokes while watching the valves just to be sure of TDC before

Oh no! I finally got those things sealed and I'm not taking them off again!

Originally Posted by joe231

so now we gotta wait a whole 4 days to hear the continuation of this soap opera???

And you really expected otherwise?



Mac.