Helloo again, just incase anyones read my previous posts, I've double checked and its not unleaded buuuuuuuut now I got a major problem...I've done my sparks, points and gap on distrobutor, and NOW the damned things started pinking like crazy so i spent today on it, I got the timing to line up perfect by the Haynes but it made it even worse, and on a short drive (maybe 3 miles) the temp gague was about to touch the red (thank god for bustops)
Anyone have any idea whats going on. Oh I did the timing with a strobe gun.
Thanks
Timing and overheating
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Awlred Drives a Quant
, Oct 04 2006 01:15 PM
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Awlred Drives a Quant
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Posted 04 October 2006 - 01:15 PM
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Posted 04 October 2006 - 02:22 PM
well my 1st suggestion is is there water in the radiator?
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Posted 04 October 2006 - 06:07 PM
if all seems to be ok with water and stat just retard ur timing till u dont get any pinking!! only do it a little bit at a time tho!!
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Posted 04 October 2006 - 06:52 PM
Ok well I feel like an idiot, when I set my points I forgot to rotate my engine so that the points were properly apart. So I fixed that reset the timing again and just for the sake of it I set my mixture perfect aswell and...well my dads words were it sounds like a new engine, from Drivers PoV it feels beautiful again.
Cheers anyway
Cheers anyway
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