quote:Originally posted by DeTom:
I know you are gone for the weekend so I will wait until you get back, but I ran into some real strange stuff today. Remember how I asked about engine run on? And then we figured out it might be too retarded. Well I think that is probably right, but now I am screwed.
OK, let me explain. I finaly got the car started and as usual it runs like crap. So I go to look at the timng and there is no little mark like what used to be on my old engine. There are whole bunches of numbers but nothing to line the numbers up with. Besides the numbers was up on top where I clearly remember was not anywhere close to where the timening mark was on my old engine. So I took a risk and slowly turned the distributor clock wise. As I did so the engine started running better. The idle started ramping up. So I continued to turn the distributor and it was ideling at almost three grand. So I turned the idle back down to 1000 rpm whare it is supposed to be, and she sounded real sweet. But then I looked at the timing light again and the numbers where back where they would have been in the olden days, but still nothing to line them up with. I am betting that the numbers moved at least sixty degrees. I know, I know, it ain't possible, but I swear that is what happened. SO I shut the engine off and no diesiling. Now I am betting I go to start it tommorrow and I am betting it won't start cause I probably have too much advance dialed in. But I can tell you one thing, I am not taking the engine cover back off again since there ain't any timing mark to play with. I will just have to do it by ear I guess.
ANyway I looked exactly where you told me too and I do not have an American engine. I do not have an australian engine either. I am betting it isn't even a Ford. I am thinking it may be made in China or something like that because instead of Cf, or GF, it don't say nothing F. It just has a big old number six. Yeah I know, it sucks. But just shows you get what you pay for sometimes. Chineese block with no timing mark.
Do you have a timing light with an adjustable timing knob on the back? I'll confess, I had a similar problem and couldn't figure out for 30 minutes one time why my timing marks were no where in site, then I realized that some knocklehead (me) forgot to insure the knob was at zero. Good luck....