deflator
15+ Year Contributor
- 535
- 3
- Jan 5, 2007
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livonia,
Michigan
I keep rebuilding this head and it just keeps bending the valves on start up. I think I am doing everything right, tensioning the belt with the Jay's racing tool. Timing looks good but all I get is backfire and no-start.
I had some serious head carnage that put the car down a year ago, all the valves hit the pistons and a rocker arm was cracked in half. Pistons are gouged but seemed serviceable. Turns out I forgot the woodruf key for the crank and I thought that was why I jumped timing. So I rebuilt the head, put a key in, and it is no different.
The engine does not turn over smoothly when cranking, it sticks in places and the interior lights dim and it stops cranking. Same crap as before when I tried to start it and it jumped timing because there was no woodruf key on the crank.
After 7 years of BS I'm thinking it is part-out time. But the car is just so mint I can't stand giving up without exhausting the possibilities. Please advise
I had some serious head carnage that put the car down a year ago, all the valves hit the pistons and a rocker arm was cracked in half. Pistons are gouged but seemed serviceable. Turns out I forgot the woodruf key for the crank and I thought that was why I jumped timing. So I rebuilt the head, put a key in, and it is no different.
The engine does not turn over smoothly when cranking, it sticks in places and the interior lights dim and it stops cranking. Same crap as before when I tried to start it and it jumped timing because there was no woodruf key on the crank.
After 7 years of BS I'm thinking it is part-out time. But the car is just so mint I can't stand giving up without exhausting the possibilities. Please advise