LilRedBronco
Sr. Member
ETA: Fixed it for now. So others may learn from my mistakes... I went down and yanked off the valve covers and with the help of wife who is detail orientated I marked off each cylinder on the distributor . I then when cylinder by cylinder lining up the rotor with the markings she made and I "relashed" each valve. So now it doesn't backfire anymore. So crisi over for now. I also found that the intake bolt on the left side under the carb missed my tightening sequence. Gotta learn to not be so rushed. Thanks for the help...
My burly mechanic:
I am almost fed up with this truck!!. Anyhow it was running really well then suddenly just as I was about to do the last mile before home started back firing REALLY bad through carb while parked and at idle.
Now it just pops and pops. Vacuum seems good new lines all snug.
Could there be some bad gas? If I didn't set valve lash perfectly would it screw up the cam? I only drove about 5 miles maybe a little more.
Jesus I just want a weekend of relaxing between 14 hour work days. About had it.
302
New heads
New Intake
New carb
My burly mechanic:
I am almost fed up with this truck!!. Anyhow it was running really well then suddenly just as I was about to do the last mile before home started back firing REALLY bad through carb while parked and at idle.
Now it just pops and pops. Vacuum seems good new lines all snug.
Could there be some bad gas? If I didn't set valve lash perfectly would it screw up the cam? I only drove about 5 miles maybe a little more.
Jesus I just want a weekend of relaxing between 14 hour work days. About had it.
302
New heads
New Intake
New carb
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