Now that metal is inside the engine.
Agree totally nothing is made now a days like it should be.The first one I changed out was worse. Almost a full quarter inch of it was gone. This one is about an 8th inch gone. Comp Cams push rods suck *** and they are made of chinesium butter steel.
Going to change the oil and see whats in the filter. Pretty sure this engine doing this to him might be a catalyst for him to Hemi swap it.Now that metal is inside the engine.
I swapped carbs with a known good QFT 750cfm 4bbl no change. Also installed a electric fuel pump and wired it temporary to make sure it was getting fuel. No change.Low float level ? Plugged jet ?
2200 is righ about where you start into main circuit.
I had a similar problem on a solid roller W2 motor .. it turned out to be a kink in the fuel line.
Its an MSD Ready To Run distributor. And a MSD blaster coil. I replaced the coil with no change. Still breaking up.If this is an electronic ignition system you can load test the entire ignition system up to the distributor cap with a soldering gun or electric engraver, without removing any components or changing any wiring.
True, it wouldn't matter how good the pump is if the pickup screen on the sending unit or the fuel filter was plugged.Swapping out the fuel pump is not what I would consider a good way to rule out fuel delivery. To rule out fuel delivery, install a fuel pressure gauge to read pressure at the inlet to the carb. Position the gauge so you can read it while driving, and monitor the pressure under WOT.
But will it stress it enough as under load , and at different or higher RPMS ?As I understand the RTR is pretty much the same as HEI, with an external coil. To eliminate the distributor pickup, ignition module, wiring, and coil as a problem you can do this test. Remove distributor cap, put a spark plug in the coil to cap wire, ground the plug, ignition on, hold the soldering gun close to distributor. The soldering gun emulates the pickup coils' magnetic field building and collapsing and will fire the plug rapidly. I have used this method to find intermittent issues because it will stress the system as if it was running.
I have to pull the intake anyhow in a week or so so that I can swap the Performer RPM for a holley Street Dominator so the oval air cleaner will fit on the engine under the hood. Since I will be in there anyhow I'll take a look at the cam. This is how I found the worn lobe on the 383. But until then we will keep trying all the suggestions you guys have mentioned.But will it stress it enough as under load , and at different or higher RPMS ?
If I had access to a points distributor , I might try popping that in next before ripping into the motor
The Guy who owns the cars has had muscle cars all his life and I trust what he tells me.
.....He said whats not right.....
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He bought the car like it is. hes 77 and will do minor wrenching on it. I don't suspect he has ever torn an engine down. But he's a true GTX dude to the end. He bought this car at one of the classics resellers places. He is sending the picture to the builder of the engine. They are out of SC.
But will it stress it enough as under load , and at different or higher RPMS ?
If I had access to a points distributor , I might try popping that in next before ripping into the motor
Man....I've seen that soooo many freaking times that it's nuts. We've all learned from our mistakes over the years but some mistakes....are so needless. Books was all us old farts had but there's so much info on the net too these days. I'm just glad I had a good mentor when I first got into tearing down anything. He wasn't even a Mopar guy but preached paying attention to taking things apart. Problem is when someone else was in it before.....and that's when you need a good manual.Well I pulled the passenger side valve cover today and was checking his "noisy" rockers. Looked it over and saw nothing.. But did a second take and I was like thats not correct. He said whats not right. I said do you see those holes in the rocker shaft? He said yes,I said the holes are supposed to be pointing towards the head. The rockers from about 3/4 of the way up to the front had very little oil on them. I flipped it all back around the rocker noise went away. And I had him watch with me as the tube filled up and spit it out from the middle to the front rockers.
Here is what I found on the passenger side.
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