FireMan

If any of you have been following my posts lately, I have had a bit of an ordeal rebuilding my 3.0 . It was to replace a headgasket, but turned into new heads, PS pump, gaskets, TPS, and mods: headers, exhuast. I just want to say a big, no HUGE THANKYOU!

These are the folks who gave me some or lots of info and made my life much easier.

eric-the-red
Ganoid
Nor_Cal2ndgen
Firefyter-Emt
miket223
86toyota
JohnStra

Fellas, once again, your input saved me lots of wasted time and money, neither of which I have. Thanks!

eric-the-red

Glad to see your engine is alive again. Not much beats that feeling when an engine fires up after a rebuild, until that point you never know if you've screwed up somewhere.

FireMan

Yeah, well.... The engine cranked, and I was getting spark, but nothing. The engine would stumble a couple of times then die. I readjusted the TPS 3 times, checked everything over again. No go. Then I realized that when I installed the distributor, the rotor turned backwards about 10-15 degrees. I readjusted it and PRESTO! Heheheheheh. The knots in my stomach went away, and one of the biggest smiles I think I ever have had lit up on my face. I've torn down VW engines before, but nothign like this. It feels really good.

eric-the-red

You have to watch those distributors, the first time I put one back in a Honda engine I got it 180 deg out, major panic until I figured that out

DavidA

How good is it running now? Any major issues?

eric-the-red

Didn't seem to do any harm, it wasn't running for very long like that.
This was a '76 Civic many years ago, so it's probably not running at all now.