Help x10 (I know, I'm probally getting on your nerves by now)

[Russell]

Alright, being the geek that I am, I made a video of my truck attempting to start to help you guys figure out the problem with me a little better... Sorry about the music, it was too boring without it

http://www.zieglerdigital.ca/gmctruc...loads/help.zip

The movie is about 6.05 mb in size, is zipped, and in wma format, meaning you'll need Windows XP or Winzip and Windows Media Player to be able to view the video.

The sound isn't that great, the camera is designed to be a photo camera, not a video camera

Thanks guys.

[68 Stepside]

it appears your choke is opening when you push the accelerator (with engine vacuum applied)...that's not normal...I'm about 90% sure something is odd with the choke setup.

[Russell]

Hmm... So what do you figure is wrong with it, and how do I fix it?

[mike reeh]

that was quite a production, russell...

everything looked normal to me.. that vacuum break was opening the choke enough when the engine started to create vacuum... when you kicked the throttle once, the choke plate closed.. both of those are normal and appear to be good...

why dont you go over EXACTLY what you did to the engine, because it supposedly ran good before, right?

also who's music was that in the video?

mike

[Russell]

All I did to tune it up was pull all of the spark plugs out, gap them, and reinstalled them according to specs on the air filter cover (0.045 -- most of them were at this point anyways) replaced the spark plug cables, cleaned up the distributer (the timing and order is correct, I am 100% sure of it) and installed a new air filter. I did run the tank totally dry of gas, and thinking it was a carburator problem I pulled the fuel intake on it to check if the fuel pump quit or something similar. I didn't do anything to the choke, or adjust the carb at all, minus adjusting the idle a bit.

That was P.O.D's song Coming Back in the background.

[mike reeh]

and now you cant get it started at ALL?

mike

ps- nice accent, EH????????

[Lynx]

ps- nice accent, EH????????

what accent i didnt notice an accent, now you guys are the ones with the accent hahaha

P.S im from canada too, acutally not to far from Russell.

As for the truck, only thing that i could think that could have gone wrong with the tune up was you messed up the plug wire locations, but it doesnt sound like thats the case, so not quite sure whats going on...... sorry

Ben

[Russell]

lol, I never once said eh, and I made a concious decision not to The truck starts if I give it gas (you probally couldn't hear it over the music, but the truck did start and was running during the lots of gas scene) Just that I gotta run it really fast for half an hour or so before it will run on its own.

[mike reeh]

30 minutes?!!? So you're telling me that after 30 minutes, it runs great?

mike

[Russell]

Yep, after about 30 minutes the truck runs like it just came off the assembly line...

[gchemist]

First problem I sees is the way too much F***ing DIRT!! Use a carb cleaner on the carb. Second if it runs and stays on take to a car wash. This will help find a leak, damage hose and other simple problems.
What is the initial timing set at? How old is the fuel pump? Fuel filter?

OH yea definately a geek!! Way nice camera though.

[Russell]

Fuel pump is brand new, fuel filter may need to be replaced, but I think that chances are it wouldn't run after 30 minutes if it had a bad fuel filter... The timing wasn't adjusted, my father says it was good. When we put the notch into the right spot, the distro's rotor was in the right position.

Heck yeah its a nice camera My father brought it home from work becuase the guys there couldn't figure it out, so I have it for a week or two =) its a Sony DSC-S50, and cost around $1100 cnd...