Is this problem timing, or something else?
Is this problem timing, or something else?
Bought my car last week it was running rough, this week ive been starting it and playing around in my driveway, as the week went on it was getting harder and harder to start and harder to catch an idle, this morning i tuned it up and figured it would solve the rough idle, i changed the pcv, rotor, cap, plugs and wires. I went to start it and wasnt getting anything through the injectors so i changed the ignition control module, it seems now its starting very funny as almost as if its starving for fuel. Heres a video:
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Re: Is this problem timing, or something else?
Did you double and triple check your firing order (since you replaced cap and wires)? And then check it again?
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Engine: 350
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Re: Is this problem timing, or something else?
Yes that is definitly a timing problem. make sure that your distributor is at tdc and 8 degrees and that your firing order is a 100 percent. I had a 87 monte carlo with a 350 that did the same thing when i first started working on it including blowing smoke out of the carb and the distributor wasnt set right on it. if your internal engine parts had work done to them you might wan to make sure the cam and crack where set to the right timing as well and that the lifters arnt tightened down to far to do anything. I've seen people tighten there rocker arms to tight and the cam not be able to open them as a result.
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