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BoondocK5

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I think the shortbox chucked it's timing chain gear today.

Drove it to work today, about 1 mile from home, just lost all power, coughed sputtered, couldn't get it to stay running. Did 2 mph, all the way home. Will check it out in the morning.
 
Hmm sucky. You wanted an LS motor anyway
 
The top ten signs of a timing chain that has "gone bad" :

10. Sneaks out at night and holds up convenience stores for all the sprockets they have on hand;

9. Sleeps with your neighbor's timing chain;

8. Trys to vote more than once for it's favorite chain for governor;

7. Doesn't claim "additional stretch" on its tax return;

6. Conspires with Honda timing chains behind your back;

5. Whines and kicks and complains that it isn't well enough to go to school, then acts perfectly normal when it visits the timing chain doctor;

4. Doesn't even try to hold its oil until it gets to the drain pan;

3. Runs backwards when you're not watching;

2. Beats on the cover like a mariachi band all night long, while you're trying to sleep;

1. It says "Ford" on it.
 
Just to catalogue everything.

Engine had a loud "tap", from the left side, when I bought "shorty". Pulled valve covers, found #3 exhaust rocker arm very loose, compared to all the others.
Replaced lifter, pushrod, rocker arm, pivot ball and locknut. New intake and valve cover gaskets, equalled, no oil leak, and a smooth running quiet engine.
Two trips to work later, engine starts, runs it's typical quadratoilet choke load up as it cold in the morning.
I turn out of the neighborhood, and loose all power, engine coughing sputtering.
Pull over, crank it, back fire through the carb, which it has not done before. All loaded up badly, can't get 1000 rpms out of it. Backfire through the carb. No power, very little vacuum, as I can feel the vacuum booster go away while holding it running at lights.
Got it home, starts, but loads up quickly, will not rev, dies won't fire up, coughs back through carb.
I think it jumped a tooth, got to go check to verify, by hand turning motor, while watching dizzy turn.
Good times <thumbsdownamilie>
 
If you find the dizzy and crank still match, dont be surprised if there are more issues in the upper valvetrain
 
Fixed.
My fault, I think...

Checked it out, crank and dizzy were where I left them. About 20° advanced, without advance plunger capped.
Apparently, that is a little much for the old girl. I had the dizzy out while changing out the lifter last week. In classic me fashion, if some is good, more is better...
Yeah, so, any way. With the quadratoilet flushing constantly while running, especially when cold. That much timing is bad, it is especially bad when some idiot leaves the dizzy hold down clamp loose, letting the dizzy move around. Backed the dizzy off to about 11° advanced, tightened down and rechecked the clamp tightness.
Fired her up, revved it to burn out the quadrflush from the prior loadup. She quieted right down and purred like a old wore out stray tom cat. Took her around the block, before she was warmed up, was a little cold blooded but, it got there. When she is warmed up she just purrs away.
So, long story short always recheck your basics. Even stupid crap like tightening down the distributor, which like me, you have done a million and one times.
 
Better to admit defeat than buying tons o parts!
 
It's a regular occurance for me to forget to tighten the distributor clamp. Run good then all at once start running like shat. Turn the dizzy back and it runs good again. Still forget to tighten clamp. Which reminds me, I think the clamp is loose on my scout:doah:
 
Did you check to make sure you weren't pulling a rocker stud (3E) loose when you replaced that one?
 
Stud fully seated.
Problem now is that rotten quadratoilet needs a rebuild. ****ing cold blooded bastige!
 
Those Q jets dont take well to the ethanol in the gas, I've had the same problem myself. Fortunately the rebuild kits are still fairly cheap.
 
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